Music in Films about the Shoah Commemoration, Comfort, Provocation

“Elias Berner has written an inspiring and moving book, a study of close listening that re-shapes theories of film music, and entangles them with the ongoing discourse on the memory of the Shoah. What this book thus beautifully brings to the fore is the relational power of music to regulate feelings...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berner, Elias
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2024, 2024
Edition:1st ed. 2024
Series:Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
LEADER 03141nmm a2200301 u 4500
001 EB002228688
003 EBX01000000000000001365648
005 00000000000000.0
007 cr|||||||||||||||||||||
008 240903 ||| eng
020 |a 9783031461972 
100 1 |a Berner, Elias 
245 0 0 |a Music in Films about the Shoah  |h Elektronische Ressource  |b Commemoration, Comfort, Provocation  |c by Elias Berner 
250 |a 1st ed. 2024 
260 |a Cham  |b Palgrave Macmillan  |c 2024, 2024 
300 |a XVII, 268 p. 54 illus., 35 illus. in color  |b online resource 
505 0 |a Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Cultural Memory Film and Music -- Chapter 3: Commemoration: The Soundtrack of Schindler’s List -- Chapter 4: Comfort: The Pianist and Taking Sides -- Chapter 5: Provocation: Inglourious Basterds -- Chapter 6: Epilogue: The Emotive Stances and Their Reverberations in Contemporary Popular Culture 
653 |a World War, 1939-1945 
653 |a History of World War II and the Holocaust 
653 |a Motion pictures 
653 |a Audio-Visual Culture 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b Springer  |a Springer eBooks 2005- 
490 0 |a Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture 
028 5 0 |a 10.1007/978-3-031-46197-2 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46197-2?nosfx=y  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
082 0 |a 791.4 
520 |a “Elias Berner has written an inspiring and moving book, a study of close listening that re-shapes theories of film music, and entangles them with the ongoing discourse on the memory of the Shoah. What this book thus beautifully brings to the fore is the relational power of music to regulate feelings of distance and closeness with a projected past.” —Thomas Macho, Professor for Cultural Hitory at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. Head/Director of the International Research Center for Cultural Studies University of Art and Design Linz, Austria This book focuses on the aural and musical sphere of fictional audio-visual reconstructions of the Holocaust, a defining event in the history of the 20th century. Musicology has seen an increasing number of works on the function of film music and the construction of identity in media contexts in recent years. This project analyses the use of music in feature films about the Shoah. The analysis of 'the sound of Nazi violence', as well as the escape from and resistance against it, not only reveals a lot about the construction of the filmic characters' emotive states, but also tells us more about our own relationship to the past. The author understands the soundtrack of these films as an affective mediator of time, which connects filmic representations of the past with the present. Analysis focuses on the soundtracks of four films: Schindler's List, The Pianist, Taking Sides and Inglourious Basterds. Elias Berner is a Post-doc Researcher at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria. In 2020 he obtained his PhD at the Department of Musicology at the University of Vienna. From 2015–2017, he was a Junior Fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK)