Star Wars: A Narrative Analysis

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The soundtrack of Star Wars can also be considered a "Signifier of emotion [in which]: Soundtrack music may set specific moods and emphasize particular emotions suggested in the narrative, but first and foremost, it is a signifier of emotion itself."(Gorbman cited in, Kassabian, 2001, p.40) In the previous original trilogy it has already been established that deeper, bass tones, in a minor key, signifies an ominous, threatening, and darker emotion connected to scenes with characters from the ‘dark side of the Force’ present. This marker of the ‘dark side’ is upheld in the scenes with Anakin and his final transition to the ‘dark side’. Whereas the calmer notes present around the presence of ‘good’, and the score playing when Obi Wan Kenobi first

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