Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Author "Abbate, Carolyn"
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Hearing Hollywood Women: Music and Gender in Action Films, 1950s–1980s
Edgar, Grace JostIn this dissertation, I explore how Hollywood film composers represented female action heroes in leitmotivic scores during the Cold War. Women starred in swashbucklers and Westerns in the regressive gender climate of the ...