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Mobilizing music in wartime British film / Heather Wiebe

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Wiebe, Heather
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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
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©2024
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1 online resource : illustrations
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In 'Mobilizing Music in Wartime British Film', author Heather Wiebe traces a preoccupation with art music and total war that animated British films of the 1940s. In acclaimed films such as 'The Red Shoes' and 'Brief Encounter' as well as experimental documentaries, colonial propaganda films, and largely forgotten melodramas, music was persistently given a central role in the action. As this book demonstrates, these films were driven by questions around the efficacy of art music, not just in the conventional sense of uplift or morale-building, but as a sonic force acting on bodies, minds, and materials, and as a resource to be mobilized or demobilized. Wiebe explores what these films tell us about the experience of World War Two, but also about more contemporary pressures on the arts to be useful and productive.
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9780197631751 ebook
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Specialized.
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Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
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