Hymns for the Fallen : Combat Movie Music and Sound after Vietnam / / Todd Decker
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Decker Todd
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| Titolo: |
Hymns for the Fallen : Combat Movie Music and Sound after Vietnam / / Todd Decker
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2017] |
| ©2017 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (315 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 781.5/420973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Film soundtracks - History and criticism |
| Motion picture music - History and criticism | |
| War films - History and criticism | |
| Note generali: | Previously issued in print: 2017. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Hymns for the Fallen |
| ISBN: | 0-520-96654-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910156243203321 |
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