Source 4 - The Gendered Score: Music in 1940s Melodrama and the Woman's Film

The Gendered Score: Music in 1940s Melodrama and the Woman's Film is a book by Heather Laing which primarily focus on the problems facing gender and emotion in the film scores of movies. Some arguments that are made are how “women in melodrama and the women's film, for example, are often placed in weak or vulnerable social positions.”(Laing 4). This source can be deemed as useful in the sense that it talks about the impact of film scores in melodramatic films and how they are targeted specifically at certain genders. The information is certainly reliable because it is academic. The source could possibly be biased because the author is a female and by the title, The Gendered Score: Music in 1940s Melodrama and the Woman's Film, the reader is aware of what to expect. I could potentially see myself using this source to show what emotions are evoked towards women with the use of music in melodramatic films. This can help my argument in the sense why music is important within the melodrama because of the emotions created by the film score. This source has definitely changed some of my thoughts on the melodrama in a film sense and could potentially change parts of the shape of my paper.