Hymns for the Fallen: Combat Movie Music and Sound after Vietnam

Author:   Todd Decker
Publisher:   University of California Press
ISBN:  

9780520282339


Pages:   274
Publication Date:   28 February 2017
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Todd Decker
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780520282339


ISBN 10:   0520282337
Pages:   274
Publication Date:   28 February 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of 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

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The measure of any study, regardless of the field, is its ability to provide new insights and approaches to critical analysis and thus facilitate greater understanding. Such new approaches are particularly important for the mechanisms of cinematic genre because of genre's dynamic tendency to reflect a given period's cultural attitudes. Decker's monograph accomplishes all of this. It is a welcome addition to the literature and will not gather dust on the bookshelf of anyone who is interested in film form in general and in the film score in particular. * American Music * Marked on every page by clear logic, sensitive perception, and emotional commitment, this is a welcome and original study. * CHOICE *


Marked on every page by clear logic, sensitive perception, and emotional commitment, this is a welcome and original study. * CHOICE *


The measure of any study, regardless of the field, is its ability to provide new insights and approaches to critical analysis and thus facilitate greater understanding. Such new approaches are particularly important for the mechanisms of cinematic genre because of genre's dynamic tendency to reflect a given period's cultural attitudes. Decker's monograph accomplishes all of this. It is a welcome addition to the literature and will not gather dust on the bookshelf of anyone who is interested in film form in general and in the film score in particular. * American Music * Marked on every page by clear logic, sensitive perception, and emotional commitment, this is a welcome and original study. * CHOICE *


Author Information

Todd Decker is Professor of Music at Washington University in St. Louis. The author of four books on American commercial music and media, he has lectured at the Library of Congress, London's Victoria and Albert Museum, and LabEx Arts-H2H in Paris.

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