Music, collective memory, trauma, and nostalgia in European cinema after the Second World War /

"In the wake of World War II, the arts and culture of Europe became a site where the devastating events of the 20th century were remembered and understood. Exploring one of the most integral elements of the cinematic experience--music--the essays in this volume consider the numerous ways in whi...

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Other Authors: Baumgartner, Michael, 1961- (Editor), Boczkowska, Ewelina, 1979- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Series:Music and sound on the international screen.
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Table of Contents:
  • Collective Memory and (Trans)Nation. A Fanfare Floating Beneath Sea Level: Music as a Sonic Lieu de Mémoire of Dutch Cultural Identity on Film / Emile Wennekes
  • Which People's Music? Witnessing the Popular in the Musicscape of Giuseppe De Santis's Riso amaro (1949, Bitter Rice) / Maurizio Corbella
  • Phantoms of Italian Opera: Cultural Memory in Italian and (West) German Films / Roger Hillman
  • A Bridge Too Far? Music in the British War Film, 1945-80 / Mervyn Cooke
  • Trauma and Survival. Hidden in Plain View: The Music of Holocaust Survival in Poland's First Post-war Feature Film / Barbara Milewski
  • Empathy, Ethics, and Film Music: Alfred Schnittke and Larisa Shepit'ko's Voskhozhdenie (1977, The Ascent) / Maria Cizmic
  • Fugue States: Music, Memory, and Trauma in Alain Resnais's Early 1960s Films / Michael Baumgartner and Orlene Denice McMahon
  • Re-Sounding Trauma: Sonic Flashbacks in the Films of Jan Troell / Alexis Luko
  • Nostalgia, and the Impossible Returns Home. Decomposing Heroism: Rolf Wilhelm's Music for Radetzkymarsch (1965) / Janina Müller and Tobias Plebuch
  • The Music of Sacrificial Acts: Displacement, Redemption, Beethoven and Verdi in Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalghia (1983) / Tobias Pontara
  • Chopin meant everything to us then: Chopin Nostalgia in Polish Cinema, 1944-91 / Ewelina Boczkowska
  • Returning Home: Critical Nostalgia and French Cinematic Illusion in the Post-war Musical Films of René Clair and Jean Renoir / Hannah Lewis.