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OverviewIn 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Todd DeckerPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.590kg ISBN: 9780520282322ISBN 10: 0520282329 Pages: 274 Publication Date: 28 February 2017 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsIntroduction 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 IndexReviewsMarked 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 * 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 InformationTodd 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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