Music in American Combat Films: A Critical Study

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Preface delete 1
• Introduction: Film Scoring Practice and the American Combat Film delete 3
• I. Scoring the Classical Combat Film and Conventions of the War Film Protagonist: The Story of G.I. Joe delete 19
• II. The Vietnam Conflict Scored as a Conventional War Film: John Wayne Plays John Wayne in The Green Berets delete 42
• III. The Ambivalent Hero: Major Heroic Malfunction in Full Metal Jacket delete 72
• IV. Vietnam Redux: Scoring the Conflicted (Post–9/11) Hero in We Were Soldiers delete 97
• V. Heroes Without a Cause: Scoring Practice and the Devolution of Combat Film Heroism in the Wake of Vietnam delete 116
• VI. Re-Presenting “The Good War” delete 134
• VII. Comparing Classical and Current Scoring Practices delete 158
• Notes delete 177
• Works Cited delete 180
• Index delete 186