1st Edition
The Gendered Score: Music in 1940s Melodrama and the Woman's Film
By Heather Laing
Copyright 2007
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Contents: Introduction; The siren and the muse: ideas of gender, emotion and subjectivity in music and film; Music and the voice in the woman's film; The female listener; The female musician; The male musician; Notes; Bibliography; Filmography; Index.
Biography
Heather Laing is a freelance lecturer and writer and an Associate Tutor in Film Studies. She is the author of Gabriel Yared's The English Patient: A Film Score Guide, 'Emotion by Numbers: Music, Song and the Musical' in Musicals: Hollywood and Beyond, ed. Bill Marshall and Robynn J. Stilwell (Intellect, 2000) and 'The Rhythm of the Night: Reframing Silence, Music and Masculinity in Beau Travail' in European Film Music, ed. Miguel Mera and David Burnand.
’A pathbreaking study... Heather Laing’s book represents an important achievement in the nascent area of gendered study of film music. It is certain to spur further work and belongs on the shelf of scholars of film music and of gender.’ Music and Letters ’The Gendered Score is an excellent book... [an] enlightening study of a genre in which male and female characters' emotions - and our responses to their psychological trials - are constructed via subtle musical and extra-musical teams.’ Popular Music ’...this book offers a new approach to reading film music in relation to gender... you are set for an exciting, informative [...] read.’ Studies in Musical Theatre
