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"This is the End, My Friend": Aural Folocalizations of Trauma in Apocalypse Now (1979) and Vietnam Combat Films

Journal of American culture (Malden, Mass.), 2016-09, Vol.39 (3), p.313 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Sep 2016 ;ISSN: 1542-7331 ;EISSN: 1542-734X

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  • Title:
    "This is the End, My Friend": Aural Folocalizations of Trauma in Apocalypse Now (1979) and Vietnam Combat Films
  • Author: Greer, Amanda
  • Subjects: Audiences ; Coppola, Francis Ford (1939- ) ; Kubrick, Stanley ; Motion picture directors & producers ; Motion pictures ; Music ; Sound design ; Subjectivity ; Trauma ; Vietnam War
  • Is Part Of: Journal of American culture (Malden, Mass.), 2016-09, Vol.39 (3), p.313
  • Description: Permeating the film like the rhythmic baseline of a rock song, the rotor haunts the film's protagonist, Captain Willard, from start to finish while revealing, through its subtle positioning, the film's ambiguous stance on America's involvement in the war. Since trauma theory's beginnings, sound has always been regarded as a trigger of conditions like PTSD. [...]they were mostly created using synthesizers, which "deconstructed" the sound into its components (Murch, qtd. in LoBrutto 92).
  • Publisher: Malden: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1542-7331
    EISSN: 1542-734X
  • Source: AUTh Library subscriptions: ProQuest Central
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