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Mobilizing music in wartime British film / Heather Wiebe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wiebe, Heather, author.
- Series:
- Oxford music/media series.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- The Oxford music/media series
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion picture music--Great Britain--History and criticism.
- Motion picture music.
- Motion pictures--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Motion pictures.
- World War, 1939-1945--Motion pictures and the war.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- In 'Mobilizing Music in Wartime British Film', author Heather Wiebe traces a preoccupation with art music and total war that animated British films of the 1940s. In acclaimed films such as 'The Red Shoes' and 'Brief Encounter' as well as experimental documentaries, colonial propaganda films, and largely forgotten melodramas, music was persistently given a central role in the action. As this book demonstrates, these films were driven by questions around the efficacy of art music, not just in the conventional sense of uplift or morale-building, but as a sonic force acting on bodies, minds, and materials, and as a resource to be mobilized or demobilized. Wiebe explores what these films tell us about the experience of World War Two, but also about more contemporary pressures on the arts to be useful and productive.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Series
- Mobilizing Music in Wartime British Film
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Music, Feeling, and Total War: Listen to Britain and Millions Like Us
- 2. "A Classic of the Masses": The Warsaw Concerto and Dangerous Moonlight
- 3. Recuperating Selfhood: Love Story and Men of Two Worlds
- 4. Sounding Out Civilian Trauma: The Seventh Veil and Brief Encounter
- 5. Possessed by Music: The Glass Mountain and The Red Shoes
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 7, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 9780197631751
- 0197631754
- 9780197631737
- 0197631738
- OCLC:
- 1451452968
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