Heather Laing examines, for the first time, the issues of gender and emotion that underpin the classical style of film scoring, but that have until now remained unquestioned and untheorized, thus pro
This study examines the musical score composed by Gabriel Yared for the film The English Patient . The volume opens with a discussion of Yared's musical background and his film score composition tech
In 1997, Gabriel Yared won an Academy Award for the original dramatic music score he wrote for The English Patient. In this study, Laing critically examines the score and discusses its narrative funct
