SUMARIO. 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.