How Long to Read The Gendered Score: Music in 1940s Melodrama and the Woman's Film

How Long Does it Take to Read The Gendered Score: Music in 1940s Melodrama and the Woman's Film?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 30 minutes to read The Gendered Score: Music in 1940s Melodrama and the Woman's Film by Heather Laing

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

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 which it is frequently associated with female characters. The full effect of such an association on either female or male characterization, however, has not been examined. 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 and the presence of musicians as characters. Case studies of specific films provide textual and musical analyses, and the genres of melodrama and the woman's film have been chosen as representative not only of the epitome of the Hollywood scoring style, but also of the narrative association of women, emotion and music. Laing leads to the conclusion that music functions as more than merely a signifier of emotion. Rather, it takes a crucial role in both indicating and determining how emotion is actually understood as part of the construction of gender and its representation in film.

How long is The Gendered Score: Music in 1940s Melodrama and the Woman's Film?

The Gendered Score: Music in 1940s Melodrama and the Woman's Film by Heather Laing is 210 pages long, and a total of 52,500 words.

This makes it 71% the length of the average book. It also has 64% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Gendered Score: Music in 1940s Melodrama and the Woman's Film Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 46 minutes to read The Gendered Score: Music in 1940s Melodrama and the Woman's Film aloud.

What Reading Level is The Gendered Score: Music in 1940s Melodrama and the Woman's Film?

The Gendered Score: Music in 1940s Melodrama and the Woman's Film is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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