03115nam 22005175 450 991015624320332120190920094934.00-520-96654-610.1525/9780520966543(CKB)3710000000978953(MiAaPQ)EBC4689388(StDuBDS)EDZ0001725397(DE-B1597)520220(OCoLC)957057151(DE-B1597)9780520966543(EXLCZ)99371000000097895320190920d2017 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierHymns for the Fallen Combat Movie Music and Sound after Vietnam /Todd DeckerBerkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]©20171 online resource (315 pages)Previously issued in print: 2017.0-520-28233-7 0-520-28232-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- IndexIn 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.Film soundtracksHistory and criticismMotion picture musicHistory and criticismWar filmsHistory and criticismFilm soundtracksHistory and criticism.Motion picture musicHistory and criticism.War filmsHistory and criticism.781.5/420973Decker Todd, 1249080DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910156243203321Hymns for the Fallen2894760UNINA