Hymns for the Fallen : Combat Movie Music and Sound after Vietnam / Todd Decker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Decker, Todd, 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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In Hymns for the Fallen, Todd Decker listens closely to forty years of Hollywood combat films produced after Vietnam. Ever a noisy genre, post-Vietnam war films have deployed music and sound to place the audience in the midst of battle and to provoke reflection on the experience of combat. Considering landmark movies-such as Apocalypse Now, Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line, Black Hawk Down, The Hurt Locker, and American Sniper-as well as lesser-known films, Decker shows how the domain of sound, an experientially rich and culturally resonant aspect of cinema, not only invokes the realities of war, but also shapes the American audience's engagement with soldiers and veterans as flesh-and-blood representatives of the nation. Hymns for the Fallen explores all three elements of film sound-dialogue, sound effects, music-and considers how expressive and formal choices in the soundtrack have turned the serious war film into a patriotic ritual enacted in the commercial space of the cinema.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Part I: The Prestige Combat Film

1. Movies and Memorials

2. Soundtracks and Scores

Part II: Dialogue

3. Soldiers' Talk

4. Soldiers' Song

5. Disembodied Voices

Part III: Sound Effects

6. Nothing Sounds Like an M-16

7. Helicopter Music

Part IV: Music

8. Unmetered

9. Metered

10. Elegies

11. End Titles

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780520966543

0520966546

OCLC:

957057151