Background
Kassabian, Anahid was born on October 12, 1959 in New York City. Daughter of Richard P. and Iris Stephanie (Noorian) Kassabian.
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Music is central to any film, creating a tone for the movie that is just as vital as the visual and narrative components. In recent years, racial and gender diversity in film has exploded, and the making of musical scores has changed drastically. Hearing Film offers the first critical examination of music in the films of the 1980s and 1990s and looks at the burgeoning role of compiled scores in the shaping of a film . In the first section, "A Woman Scored," Kassabian analyzes desire and agency in the music of such films as Dangerous Liaisons, Desert Hearts, Bagdad Café, Dirty Dancing and Thelma and Louise. In "At the Twilight's Last Scoring," she looks at gender, race, sexuality and assimilation in the music of The Hunt for Red October, Lethal Weapon 2 and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. And finally, in "Opening Scores," she considers how films such as Dangerous Minds, The Substitute, Mississippi Masala and Corrina, Corrina bring together several different entry points of identification through their scores. Kassabian ensures that modern film criticism has a new chapter written through this book. Her important and long-overdue analysis is not to be ignored. Also includes eleven musical examples.
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Kassabian, Anahid was born on October 12, 1959 in New York City. Daughter of Richard P. and Iris Stephanie (Noorian) Kassabian.
Bachelor in Media Studies, Fordham University, 1986; Master of Arts in Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University, 1988; Doctor of Philosophy in Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University, 1993.
Graduate fellow Stanford (California) University, 1986-1992, instructor, 1992-1993. Development director The Women's Philharmonic, San Francisco, 1993-1994. Lecturer cinema department San Francisco State University, 1994.
Lecturer women's studies program California State University, Fresno, 1995-1996. Assistant professor media studies Fordham University, since 1996, associate professor, since 2002, director literature studies program, since 2003. Board directors Aunt Lute Foundation, San Francisco.
Member advisory board ArteEast, since 2003. Co-curater Armenian Film Festival, 2002, 04.
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Member steering committee Voice for Choice, San Mateo, California, 1993. Member of Society Armenian Studies, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, International Association for Study of Popular Music (executive committee United States branch 1992—2000, chairman international executive committee 1999—2003).
Married Leo Gulvad Svendsen, December 31, 1986. 1 child, Maral Kassabian Svendsen.
