Hymns for the fallen : combat movie music and sound after Vietnam / Todd Decker.

Author
Decker, Todd R. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
  • ©2017
Description
304 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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    Summary note
    "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.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-294) and index.
    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.
    ISBN
    • 9780520282322 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 0520282329 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780520282339 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 0520282337 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2016034599
    OCLC
    956984871
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