Film, Music, Memory / Berthold Hoeckner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoeckner, Berthold, Author.

Contributor:

Gunning, Tom, Contributor.

Series:

Cinema and modernity.

Chicago scholarship online.

Cinema and Modernity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture music--History and criticism.

Motion picture music.

Memory in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Film has shaped modern society in part by changing its cultures of memory. Film, Music, Memory reveals that this change has rested in no small measure on the mnemonic powers of music. As films were consumed by growing American and European audiences, their soundtracks became an integral part of individual and collective memory. Berthold Hoeckner analyzes three critical processes through which music influenced this new culture of memory: storage, retrieval, and affect. Films store memory through an archive of cinematic scores. In turn, a few bars from a soundtrack instantly recall the image that accompanied them, and along with it, the affective experience of the movie. Hoeckner examines films that reflect directly on memory, whether by featuring an amnesic character, a traumatic event, or a surge of nostalgia. As the history of cinema unfolded, movies even began to recall their own history through "ations, remakes, and stories about how cinema contributed to the soundtrack of people's lives. Ultimately, Film, Music, Memory demonstrates that music has transformed not only what we remember about the cinematic experience, but also how we relate to memory itself.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

1. Storage

2. Retrieval

3. Affect

Coda

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226649894

022664989X

OCLC:

1129684659