The Shawshank Redemption: The Birth of an Underscore Language

I my CE thesis, I attempt to analyse the music from the motion picture "The Shawshank Redemption", trying to, on one hand, describe its narrative and emotional function in the film, answering to the question "why does it work?", and, on the other hand, justifying why this film was the founding work for the establishment of Thomas Newman's characteristic musical language, as a film composer.