Music in American Combat Films : A Critical Study

SUMARIO. Scoring the classical combat film and conventions of the war film protagonist : the story of G.I. Joe / The Vietnam conflict scored as a conventional war film : John Wayne plays John Wayne in the Green Berets / The ambivalent hero : major heroic malfunction in Full metal jacket / Vietnam redux : scoring the conflicted (post-9/11) hero in We were soldiers / Heroes without a cause : scoring practice and the devolution of combat film heroism in the wake of Vietnam / Re-presenting the good war / Comparing classical and current scoring practices.