Title
Seeing Through Music: Gender and Modernism in Classic Hollywood Film Scores (Oxford Music / Media),Used
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Hollywood film music is often mocked as a disreputably "applied" branch of the art of composition that lacks both the seriousness and the quality of the classical or lateromantic concert and operatic music from which it derives. Its composers in the 1930s and '40s were themselves often scornful of it and aspired to produce more 'serious' works that would enhance their artistic reputation.In fact the criticism of film music as slavishly descriptive or manipulatively overemotional has a history that is older than film it had even been directed at the relatively popular operatic and concert music written by some of the migr Hollywood composers themselves before they had left Europe. There, as subsequently in America, such criticism was promoted by the developing project of Modernism, whose often highminded opposition to mass culture used polarizing language that drew, intentionally or not, upon that of gender difference. Regressive, lateromantic music, the old argument ran, was as women were believed to be emotional, irrational, and lacking in logic.This book seeks to level the critical playing field between film music and "serious music," reflecting upon genderrelated ideas about music and modernism as much as about film. Peter Franklin broaches the possibility of a history of twentiethcentury music that would include, rather than marginalize, film music and, indeed, the scores of a number of the major Hollywood movies discussed here, like The Bride of Frankenstein, King Kong, Rebecca, Gone With The Wind, Citizen Kane and Psycho. In doing so, he brings more detailed musichistorical knowledge to bear upon cinema music, often discussed as a unique and special product of film, and also offers conclusions about the problematic aspects of musical modernism and some arguably liberating aspects of "lateromanticism."
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