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The Gendered Score: Music in 1940s Melodrama and the Woman's Film - Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series Heather Laing New edition
The Gendered Score: Music in 1940s Melodrama and the Woman's Film - Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
Heather Laing
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.
265 pages, includes 16 b&w illustrations and 30 music examples
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 23, 2007 |
| ISBN13 | 9780754651000 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 210 |
| Dimensions | 164 × 240 × 17 mm · 458 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Burns, Professor Lori |
| Series Editor | Hawkins, Professor Stan |
| Series Editor | Scott, Professor Derek B. |
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