Film/Music Analysis: A Film Studies Approach

by Emilio Audissino

1. Introduction: Who Is Entitled To Study Film Music?.- 2. PART I: Pars Destruens - Chapter 2. The Not-So-Fantastical Gap between Music Studies and Film Studies.- 3. Recent Attempts to Bridge the Gap and Overcome a Separatism Conception.- 4. PART II: Pars Construens - Chapter 4. The Neoformalist Proposal.- 5. Film/Music Analysis I: Music, Gestalt, and Audiovisual Isomorphism.- 6. Film/Music Analysis II: Functions and Motivations of Music.- 7. PART III: Pars Demonstrans - Chapter 7. Five Illustrations of Film/Music Analysis.- 8. Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. The Extraterrestrial. The Bonding Power of Music.- 9. Recapitulation and Final Thoughts.

Genres: Music

245 pages, Hardcover

Published October 18, 2017

Reviews

[Jona Vineyard · Rating 5 out of 5]

Audissino's approach to analysing film music is based on understanding music as a film device. Therefore, he analyses the relationship between music and visuals and its motivations and functions. It is very easy to follow because there are lots of well explained examples. 

I would recommend this book to every fellow film musicology student, as we are mainly taught by classical musicologists and lack the knowledge of film scholars. This book covers the basics of film techniques and gives you the tools to analyse music apart from the score and in an audiovisual context.

[Alice · Rating 4 out of 5]

An encompassing analysis and review that well considers current and past literature, particularly intersecting consideration of Stilwells fantastical gap