| Film, Music, Memory Contributor(s): Hoeckner, Berthold (Author) |
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ISBN: 022664961X ISBN-13: 9780226649610 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $127.71 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Music | History & Criticism - General - Social Science | Media Studies |
| Dewey: 781.542 |
| LCCN: 2019018466 |
| Series: Cinema and Modernity |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 7.2" W x 10.2" (2.30 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Film has shaped modern society in part by changing its cultures of memory. Film, Music, Memory reveals that this change has rested in no small measure on the mnemonic powers of music. As films were consumed by growing American and European audiences, their soundtracks became an integral part of individual and collective memory. Berthold Hoeckner analyzes three critical processes through which music influenced this new culture of memory: storage, retrieval, and affect. Films store memory through an archive of cinematic scores. In turn, a few bars from a soundtrack instantly recall the image that accompanied them, and along with it, the affective experience of the movie. Hoeckner examines films that reflect directly on memory, whether by featuring an amnesic character, a traumatic event, or a surge of nostalgia. As the history of cinema unfolded, movies even began to recall their own history through quotations, remakes, and stories about how cinema contributed to the soundtrack of people's lives. Ultimately, Film, Music, Memory demonstrates that music has transformed not only what we remember about the cinematic experience, but also how we relate to memory itself. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hoeckner, Berthold: - Berthold Hoeckner is professor of music at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Programming the Absolute: Nineteenth-Century German Music and the Hermeneutics of the Moment. |