Identifying and Interpreting Incongruent Film Music (Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture) - Softcover

Ireland, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3030405230 ISBN 13: 9783030405236

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

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About the Author

David Ireland is Lecturer in music psychology at the University of Leeds, UK. He has previously published on incongruent film music in the interdisciplinary Constructing Crime collection (2012), as well as The Soundtrack and Music and the Moving Image journals.

From the Back Cover

This book explores the concept of incongruent film music, challenging the idea that this label only describes music that is inappropriate or misfitting for a film's images and narrative. Defining incongruence as a lack of shared properties in the audiovisual relationship, this study examines various types of incongruence between a film and its music and considers the active role that it can play in the construction of a film's meaning and influencing audience response. Synthesising findings from research in the psychology of music in multimedia, as well as from ideas sourced in semiotics, film music, and poststructuralist theory, this interdisciplinary book provides a holistic perspective that reflects the complexity of moments of film-music incongruence. With case studies including well-known films such as Gladiator and The Shawshank Redemption, this book combines scene analysis and empirical audience reception tests to emphasise the subjectivity, context-dependency, and multi-dimensionality inherent in identifying and interpreting incongruent film music.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 3030405230
• ISBN 13: 9783030405236
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 260