Scoring Masculinity in Crisis: Thomas Newman’s Sonic World and the Disintegration of the Indiewood Male
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-ysu15441836932527012021-08-03T07:09:15Z Scoring Masculinity in Crisis: Thomas Newman’s Sonic World and the Disintegration of the Indiewood Male Sallustio, Edward John Film Studies Music Thomas Newman Film Music Masculinity Indiewood Over his thirty-five-year career, film composer Thomas Newman has adapted his compositional approach to changing technologies and evolving narratives. Newman’s second period—the 1990s—coincided with the rise of the independent film spirit in Hollywood, known as Indiewood, and Hollywood’s evolving portrayals of “masculinity” on screen during a decade in which the traditional models of masculinity were themselves changing or, as Stella Bruzzi suggests, “in crisis.” The combination of Newman’s music, new narrative film structures and different constructions of the male image in Hollywood replaced the long-standing patriarchal model of the past by shifting focus onto the interiority of the male protagonist. Building on Bruzzi’s claim that the 1990s male in Hollywood was faced with inner—as opposed to external—struggles, I provide a reading into the sonic identity Newman creates for the male protagonists in four films, The Player (Robert Altman, 1992), Scent of a Woman (Martin Brest, 1992), Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont, 1994), and American Beauty (Sam Mendes, 1999). I combine my hermeneutic readings of each film with graphical musico-narrative models, which I built based on Joseph Campbell’s monomyth theory. This approach allows me to situate Newman’s musical cues within the overall narrative arc of the films and identify cues that underline narrative crisis points for my textual analyses. In so doing, I trace stylistic continuities between films and demonstrate how Thomas Newman’s “sound” consistently helps represent the inner-horrors of the 1990s Hollywood male protagonist. 2018-12-12 English text Youngstown State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1544183693252701 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1544183693252701 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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