"In the strictest definition of the term, melodrama refers to those narrative forms which combine music with drama. Hollywood's use of background music to provide aural dimension and an emotional punctuation to its drama extends back even to the silent era. Live musical accompaniment (usually organ or piano) was standard from the earliest days of theatrical projection" Landy, 148 (Schatz reading)
"Ideally, the family represents a "natural" as well as social collective, a self-contained society in and of itself. But in a melodrama, this ideal is undercut by the family's status within a highly structured socioeconomic milieu, and therefore, its identity as a autonomous human community is denied-the family's roles are determined by the larger social community." Landy,153 (Schatz reading)
Question: How does the music of Written On The Wind play a role in the contribution to the overall 'melodramatic' ideals talked about by Schatz, especially that of the social community?
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