The Synergy of Music and Image in Audiovisual Culture

Half-Heard Sounds and Peripheral Visions

K.J. Donnelly

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781032290263
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000997873
• Topic: Medien & darstellende Kunst
• Subtopic: Film & Video

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• 1 Introduction: Conceiving Music’s Relationship to Image
• 2 The Ghostly Effect Revisited
• 3 Saw Heard: Musical Sound Design in Post-Millennium Cinema
• 4 Music Cultizing Film: KTL and the New Silents
• 5 Irish Sea Power: A New Man of Aran (2009/1934)
• 6 The Classical Film Score Forever?: Batman, Batman Returns, and Post-Classical Film Music
• 7 Hearing Deep Seated Fears: John Carpenter’s The Fog (1980)
• 8 Angel of the Air: Popol Vuh’s Music and Werner Herzog’s Films
• 9 Ravenous and the European Take on American History and the Western
• 10 White Labels and Black Imports: Music, Assimilation, and Commerce in Absolute Beginners (1985)
• 11 Visualizing Live Albums: Progressive Rock and the British Concert Film in the 1970s
• 12 Television’s Musical Imagination: Space: 1999
• 13 Lawn of the Dead: The Indifference of Musical Destiny in Plants vs. Zombies
• Index