Women through music in golden age Hollywood cinema

Binns, Alexander

Abstract

Explores the ways in which classical Hollywood cinema used music, among other components, to encode the presence and aura of women and, in so doing, perpetuated entrenched models of female sexuality.Examples are provided from David Lean's 1945 film Brief encounter and Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940).

Citation

Binns, A. (2009). Women through music in golden age Hollywood cinema. Sound and music in film and visual media: an overview (375 - 387). Continuum

• Acceptance Date: May 1, 2009
• Publication Date: May 1, 2009
• Pages: 375 - 387
• Book Title: Sound and music in film and visual media: an overview
• ISBN: 978-0-82645-824-7
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/423917