Hymns for the fallen
Subtitle: combat movie music and sound after Vietnam
By: Todd Decker
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780520282322; 9780520282339
Subjects: Motion picture music; War films; Film soundtracks; History and criticism
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-294) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part I. The prestige combat film. Movies and memorials ; Soundtracks and scores; title: Part II. Dialogue. Soldiers' talk ; Soldiers' song ; Disembodied voices; title: Part III. Sound effects. Nothing sounds like an M-16 ; Helicopter music; title: Part IV. Music. Unmetered ; Metered ; Elegies ; End titles.