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The Gendered Score: Music in 1940s Melodrama and the Woman's Film - Music in 1940s Melodrama and the Woman's Film (Paperback)
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The Gendered Score: Music in 1940s Melodrama and the Woman's Film - Music in 1940s Melodrama and the Woman's Film (Paperback)
Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
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Heather Laing examines, for the first time, the issues of gender
and emotion that underpin the classical style of film scoring, but
that have until now remained unquestioned and untheorized, thus
providing a benchmark for thinking on more recent and alternative
styles of scoring. Many theorists have discussed this type of music
in film as a signifier of emotion and 'the feminine', a capacity in
which it is frequently associated with female characters. The full
effect of such an association on either female or male
characterization, however, has not been examined. 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 and the presence of musicians as
characters. Case studies of specific films provide textual and
musical analyses, and the genres of melodrama and the woman's film
have been chosen as representative not only of the epitome of the
Hollywood scoring style, but also of the narrative association of
women, emotion and music. Laing leads to the conclusion that music
functions as more than merely a signifier of emotion. Rather, it
takes a crucial role in both indicating and determining how emotion
is actually understood as part of the construction of gender and
its representation in film.
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