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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Film melodrama"”.
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Two shadows in the moonlight : music in British film melodrama of the 1940s
… in the two cinemas. Concentrating on exemplary films from the late 1930s to the early 1950s, I show how the apparent differences are manifested, and by analysing a number of key British films, I illustrate the modes of musical expression used. There are many ways to approach film music. My own …
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Gothic heroines and cultural trauma in 20th Century literature and film
… how 20th Century British writers and Hollywood filmmakers have adapted common features of the Gothic literary tradition - the imperiled but investigative heroine, the attractive but coercive villain, and the portrait of a female predecessor - to address massive traumas that have been repressed …