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Hymns for the fallen : combat movie music and sound after Vietnam / Todd Decker.
LIBRA ML2075 .D43 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Decker, Todd R., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Film soundtracks--History and criticism.
- Film soundtracks.
- Motion picture music--History and criticism.
- Motion picture music.
- War films--History and criticism.
- War films.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 304 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- "This book describes in detail how music and sound function as a constituent part of the prestige combat film's larger work of memorialization in the cultural realm of commercial cinema. As Rikke Schubart and Anne Gjelsvik note, historians must deal with 'the complexity of history, war, heroism, patriotism, memory, and the process of their representation.' Hymns for the Fallen traces an expressive sonic continuity in this 'process of representation' for serious war films. The three elements of the soundtrack--dialogue, sound effects, music--are treated in detail in the chapters which follow, although music proves to be of particular interest"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Movies and memorials
- Soundtracks and scores
- Soldiers' talk
- Soldiers' song
- Disembodied voices
- Nothing sounds like an M-16
- Helicopter music
- Unmetered
- Metered
- Elegies
- End titles.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-294) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Decker, Todd R., author. Hymns for the fallen.
- ISBN:
- 9780520282322
- 0520282329
- 9780520282339
- 0520282337
- OCLC:
- 956984871
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