Research Catalog

Title

Music, collective memory, trauma, and nostalgia in European cinema after the Second World War / edited by Michael Baumgartner, Cleveland State University, USA and Ewelina Boczkowska, Youngstown State University, USA.

Publication

• New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Baumgartner, Michael, 1961-
• Boczkowska, Ewelina, 1979-

Description

viii, 314 pages : illustrations, music; 24 cm.

Summary

"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 which post-war European cinema dealt with memory, trauma and nostalgia, showing how the music of these films shaped the representation of the past. The contributors consider films from the United Kingdom, Poland, the Soviet Union, France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Austria, and the Netherlands, providing a diverse and well-rounded understanding of film music in the context of historical memory. Memory is often underrepresented within scholarly musical studies, with most of these applications found in the disciplines of ethnomusicology, popular music studies, music cognition, and psychology and music therapy. Likewise, trauma has mainly been studied in relation to music in only a few historical contexts, while nostalgia has attracted even less academic attention. In three parts, this volume addresses each area of study as it relates to the music of European cinema from 1945 to 1989, applying an interdisciplinary approach to investigate how films use music to negotiate the precarious relationships we maintain with the past. Music, Collective Memory, Trauma, and Nostalgia in European Cinema after the Second World War offers compelling arguments as to what makes music such a powerful medium for memory, trauma and nostalgia."--

Series Statement

Music and sound on the international screen

Uniform Title

Music and sound on the international screen.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Musical films > Europe > History > 20th century
• Nostalgia in motion pictures
• Psychic trauma in motion pictures
• Collective memory and motion pictures > Europe
• Collective memory and motion pictures
• Musical films
• Europe

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JME 19-447

ISBN

• 9781138238015
• 1138238015
• 9781315298450 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781315298436 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781315298443 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781315298429 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019020591

OCLC

1112132258

Title

Music, collective memory, trauma, and nostalgia in European cinema after the Second World War / edited by Michael Baumgartner, Cleveland State University, USA and Ewelina Boczkowska, Youngstown State University, USA.

Publisher

New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Music and sound on the international screen

Music and sound on the international screen.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Baumgartner, Michael, 1961- editor.

Boczkowska, Ewelina, 1979- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Music, collective memory, trauma and nostalgia in European cinema after the Second World War. New York ; London : Routledge, 2019. 9781315298450 (DLC) 2019980954

Research Call Number

JME 19-447