Strains of Utopia : : Gender, Nostalgia, and Hollywood Film Music / / Caryl Flinn.
When Dmitri Tiomkin thanked Johannes Brahms, Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss, and Richard Wagner upon accepting the Academy Award for his score of The High and the Mighty in 1954, he was honoring a romantic style that had characterized Hollywood's golden age of film composition from the mid-193...
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Flinn, Caryl, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Strains of Utopia : Gender, Nostalgia, and Hollywood Film Music / Caryl Flinn. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [1992] ©1992 1 online resource (212 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- ONE. The New Romanticism -- TWO. The Man behind the Muse -- THREE. Musical Utopias in Marxism and Cultural Criticism -- FOUR. Out of the Past -- FIVE. Musical Utopias of the Classical Film -- SIX. Music and Interpretation -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star When Dmitri Tiomkin thanked Johannes Brahms, Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss, and Richard Wagner upon accepting the Academy Award for his score of The High and the Mighty in 1954, he was honoring a romantic style that had characterized Hollywood's golden age of film composition from the mid-1930s to the 1950s. Exploring elements of romanticism in film scores of composers ranging from Erich Korngold to Bernard Herrmann, Caryl Flinn argues that films tended to link music to the sense of an idealized, lost past. Just as the score of Gone with the Wind captured the grandeur of the antebellum South, others prompted flashbacks or suggested moments of emotional intensity and sensuality. Maintaining that many films treated this utopian impulse as a female trait, Flinn investigates the ways Hollywood genre films--particularly film noir and melodrama--sustained the connection between music and nostalgia, utopia, and femininity. The author situates Hollywood film scores within a romantic aesthetic ideology, noting compositional and theoretical affinities between the film composers and Wagner, with emphasis on authorship, creativity, and femininity. Pointing to the lasting impact of romanticism on film music, Flinn draws from poststructuralist, Marxist, feminist, and psychoanalytic criticism to offer fresh insights into the broad theme of music as an excessive utopian condition. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Motion picture music United States History and criticism. PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 print 9780691006192 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400820658 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400820658 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400820658.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- ONE. The New Romanticism -- TWO. The Man behind the Muse -- THREE. Musical Utopias in Marxism and Cultural Criticism -- FOUR. Out of the Past -- FIVE. Musical Utopias of the Classical Film -- SIX. Music and Interpretation -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
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