ABSTRACT
This chapter examines Franz Waxman's music for the 1951 film A Place in the Sun as a media hybrid, exploring its intermediality and the cultural values that shaped its creation and reception. The analysis highlights the collaborative nature of Hollywood film scoring, which challenges traditional notions of authorship, and investigates how Waxman's music transcended the film medium through theme songs and a concert adaptation. Waxman's 1963 concert adaptation for the Hollywood Bowl is analysed as a reinterpretation of the film score, incorporating elements excluded from the original soundtrack and emphasizing jazz influences to position the music within the context of American modernism. By tracing the music's transformation across different media, the chapter reveals the ontological ambiguity of Hollywood film music in the 1950s.
