Includes bibliographical references and index.

I: Music into film: critical cross-fades -- Men's musicology/women's films: meanings of late Romanticism -- Exploitation and seduction: converging responses to popular opera and film -- Into the mists...Subjective realms (and the undoing of men?): film's critique of music -- II: Watching symphonies: cautionary tales -- Symphonic narratives (and promiscuous pleasure): film music and changing perceptions of the symphony in the nineteenth century -- Return of the undone woman: Hollywood's music and the critical history of late Romanticism -- Modernism and 'the Image of the man': Hollywood interprets musical modernism.