The Gendered Score
Subtitle: Music in 1940s Melodrama and the Woman's Film (Ashgate Popular & Folk Music)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing; Ashgate
Published: November 5, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780754651000
Subjects: Films, cinema; Musical scores, lyrics & libretti; Women's studies; Second World War, 1939-1945; c 1945 to c 1960; Performing Arts; Cinema/Film: Book; Film & Video - General; Gender identity in motion pictures; Gender identity in music; History and criticism; Motion picture music
Description: Heather Laing examines the issues of gender and emotion that underpin the classical style of film scoring, providing a benchmark for thinking on more recent and alternative styles of scoring, but which remain unquestioned and untheorized.