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.
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Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | 3 | |
1 | The New Romanticism: Hollywood Film Composition in the 1930s and 1940s | 13 |
2 | The Man behind the Muse: Music and the Lost Maternal Object | 51 |
3 | Musical Utopias in Marxism and Cultural Criticism | 70 |
4 | Out of the Past: Recontextualizing the Utopias of Film Music | 91 |
5 | Musical Utopias of the Classical Film | 108 |
6 | Music and Interpretation | 151 |
Notes | 159 | |
Bibliography | 183 | |
Index | 189 |
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