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Bernard Hermann; Jane Eyre; The Ghost and Mrs. Muir; musical score; leitmotif; feminist theory; metadiegesis;
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Symphonic Expressions Of The Female Voice: An Analysis Of Bernard Hermann's Scores For Jane Eyre (1943) And The Ghost And Mrs. Muir (1947), Alyson Picard
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This Honors thesis discusses an area of film score analysis that has been overlooked in scholarship. The author musically analyzes the work of Bernard Herrmann, revealing from his scores a hidden layer of connotative emotions and inner life of the female protagonists in the gothic melodrama films Jane Eyre (1943) and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947). The female voice in classical Hollywood was forced into submission due to the cultural ideology of Westernized gendered thought. Herrmann provides the female protagonists with a sounding board for their sequestered minds, allowing the audience the opportunity to peer into the souls of …