Peter Franklin, Seeing Through Music: Gender and Modernism in Classical Hollywood Film Scores

Authors

  • Jessica Getman California State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jfm.23512

Keywords:

classical hollywood film, gender, modernism

Abstract

Peter Franklin, Seeing Through Music: Gender and Modernism in Classical Hollywood Film Scores Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011 [208pp. ISBN: 9780195383454. £46.99 (hardback); ISBN: 9780190246549. £31.49 (paperback)], 28 screen stills, index.

Author Biography

  • Jessica Getman, California State University

    Jessica Getman is a film musicologist, with emphasis in television studies and science fiction media. Her
    PhD dissertation at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, was on music and social discourse in the original series of Star Trek, and she is currently editing a collection of essays on music in that franchise for the publisher Routledge. She is excited to share her interests in screen media, popular music, amateur music, critical editing, historically informed performance practice, and twentieth-century American music with her CSUSB students and community.

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Published

2022-12-16

How to Cite

Getman, J. (2022). Peter Franklin, Seeing Through Music: Gender and Modernism in Classical Hollywood Film Scores. Journal of Film Music, 10(2), 194-197. https://doi.org/10.1558/jfm.23512