
- 252 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Film Music: Cognition to Interpretation explores the dynamic counterpoint between a film's soundtrack, its visuals and narrative, and the audience's perception and construction of meaning.
Adopting a holistic approach covering both the humanities and the sciences—blending cognitive psychology, musical analysis, behavioral neuroscience, semiotics, linguistics, and other related fields—the author examines the perceptual and cognitive processes that elicit musical meaning in film and breathe life into our cinematic experiences. A clear and engaging writing style distills complex concepts, theories, and analytical methodologies into explanations accessible to readers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, making it an indispensable companion for scholars and students of music, film studies, and cognition.
Across ten chapters, extensive appendices, and hundreds of film references, Film Music: Cognition to Interpretation offers a new mode of analysis, inviting readers to unlock a deeper understanding of the expressive power of film music.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Empathy
- 2 CONTAINER Schema
- 3 LINEARITY Schema
- 4 SOURCE-PATH-GOAL & CONTAINER Schemas
- 5 Affordances
- 6 Memory & Auditory Perception
- 7 Archetypes
- 8 Associations
- 9 Categorization
- 10 Interpretive Transformations
- Appendix I Empathy
- Appendix II Conceptual Metaphor and Image Schema
- Appendix III Affordances
- Appendix IV Memory
- Appendix V Auditory Perception
- Appendix VI Archetypes
- Appendix VII Conceptual Integration
- Appendix VIII Categorization
- Appendix IX Additional Examples
- References
- Film, Filmmaker, and Composer Index
- Subject Index