1st Edition
The Synergy of Music and Image in Audiovisual Culture Half-Heard Sounds and Peripheral Visions
The Synergy of Music and Image in Audiovisual Culture: Half-Heard Sounds and Peripheral Visions asks what it means to understand music as part of an audiovisual whole, rather than separate components of music and film. Bringing together revised and updated essays on music in a variety of media – including film, television, and video games – this book explores the importance of partially perceived and registered auditory and visual elements and cultural context in creating unique audiovisual experiences. Critiquing traditional models of the film score, The Synergy of Music and Image in Audiovisual Culture enables readers across music, film, and cultural studies to approach and think about audiovisual culture in new ways.
1. Introduction: Conceiving Music’s Relationship to Image
2. "The ‘Ghostly Effect’ Revisited": Film Music as Naked Effect
3. Musical Sound Design
4. The Classical Film Score: Persistence and Revival
5. Working with and Against Genre Tradition: De-Westernizing the Western
6. Cult: (Long Live) the New Silents
7. Resurfacing Film Heritage through Music
8. The Primal Psychology of Film Music
9. Music and Atmosphere: Music as ‘Set’
10. Musicals, Commerce and Race: White Labels and Black Imports
11. Film’s Relations with the Music Industry
12. Music as an Extra Imaginative Dimension
13. Game Mechanisms/Mechanics: The Indifference of Musical Destiny
Biography
K.J. Donnelly is Professor of Film and Film Music and Director of Doctoral Programmes for Film at the University of Southampton.
