Film/Music Analysis: A Film Studies Approach

by Emilio Audissino

This book offers an approach to film music in which music and visuals are seen as equal players in the game. The field of Film-Music Studies has been increasingly dominated by musicologists and this book brings the discipline back squarely into the domain of Film Studies. Blending Neoformalism with Gestalt Psychology and Leonard B. Meyer's musicology, this study treats music as a cinematic element and offers scholars and students of both music and film a set of tools to help them analyse the wide ranging impact that music has in films.

Genres: Music

258 pages, Paperback

Published August 24, 2018

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