1st Edition

The Synergy of Music and Image in Audiovisual Culture Half-Heard Sounds and Peripheral Visions

By K.J. Donnelly Copyright 2024
230 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

230 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

230 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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.