Music in Films about the Shoah

Commemoration, Comfort, Provocation
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-46199-6
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 376 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture

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 .

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berner, Elias

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Filmmusik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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).