Seeing Through Music: Gender and Modernism in Classic Hollywood Film Scores (Oxford Music / Media)

This Title Levels The Critical Playing-field Between Film-music And So-called 'serious Music', Reflecting Upon Gender-related Ideas About Music And Modernism As Much As About Film. I: Music Into Film: Critical Cross-fades -- Men's Musicology/women's Films: Meanings Of Late Romanticism -- Exploitation And Seduction: Converging Responses To Popular Opera And Film -- Into The Mists...subjective Realms (and The Undoing Of Men?): Film's Critique Of Music -- Ii: Watching Symphonies: Cautionary Tales -- Symphonic Narratives (and Promiscuous Pleasure): Film Music And Changing Perceptions Of The Symphony In The Nineteenth Century -- Return Of The Undone Woman: Hollywood's Music And The Critical History Of Late Romanticism -- Modernism And 'the Image Of The Man': Hollywood Interprets Musical Modernism. Peter Franklin. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.