Mobilizing Music in Wartime British Film

Mobilizing Music in Wartime British Film examines the preoccupation with art music and total war that animated British films of the 1940s.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1. Music, Feeling, and Total War: Listen to Britain and Millions Like Us


• 2. "A Classic of the Masses:" The Warsaw Concerto and Dangerous Moonlight


• 3. Recuperating Selfhood: Love Story and Men of Two Worlds


• 4. Sounding Out Civilian Trauma: The Seventh Veil and Brief Encounter


• 5. Possessed by Music: The Glass Mountain and The Red Shoes


• Filmography


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Heather Wiebe is the author of Britten's Unquiet Pasts: Sound and Memory in Postwar Reconstruction. She teaches at the University of Notre Dame, and was previously Reader in Music at King's College London.

Summary

Mobilizing Music in Wartime British Film examines the preoccupation with art music and total war that animated British films of the 1940s.

Product details

• Authors: Heather Wiebe, Heather (Teaching Professor in Music and Li Wiebe, Wiebe Heather
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.11.2024
• EAN: 9780197631720
• ISBN: 978-0-19-763172-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Oxford Music / Media
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Television, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, Musicals, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Musicals, Films, cinema, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Music of film and stage