ABSTRACT
Since the Millennium, silent films have become more popular than they have been since the 1920s when they were seemingly made obsolete by films with synchronized recorded sound. Their revival has come partly through a rebranding of past culture as heritage often restaged as live events, but perhaps more pertinently through the addition of new musical accompaniments. This chapter will focus in particular on KTL's soundtrack (2010) for Victor Sjöström's morality play The Phantom Carriage (Körkarlen 1922), which grafted a new “cult” status onto this film through the musicians involved.
