The Gendered Score: Music in 1940s Melodrama and the Woman's Film

Heather Laing

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2007

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Examines the issues of gender and emotion that underpin the classical style of film scoring. This book considers the effects of this association by progress through three stages: cultural-historical precedents, the generic parameters of melodrama and the woman's film, and the narrativization of music in film through diegetic performance.

ISBN-13
9780754651000
ISBN-10
0754651002
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year
2007
Publication date
2007-11-23
Pages
210
Dimensions
240x164x17
Weight
458