ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|15 pages

Introduction

Conceiving Music's Relationship to Image

chapter 2|13 pages

The Ghostly Effect Revisited

chapter 3|22 pages

Saw Heard

Musical Sound Design in Post-Millennium Cinema

chapter 4|16 pages

Music Cultizing Film

KTL and the New Silents

chapter 5|16 pages

Irish Sea Power

A New Man of Aran (2009/1934)

chapter 6|17 pages

The Classical Film Score Forever?

Batman, Batman Returns, and Post-Classical Film Music

chapter 7|17 pages

Hearing Deep Seated Fears

John Carpenter's The Fog (1980)

chapter 8|17 pages

Angel of the Air

Popol Vuh's Music and Werner Herzog's Films

chapter 10|15 pages

White Labels and Black Imports

Music, Assimilation, and Commerce in Absolute Beginners (1985)

chapter 11|14 pages

Visualizing Live Albums

Progressive Rock and the British Concert Film in the 1970s

chapter 12|15 pages

Television's Musical Imagination

Space: 1999

chapter 13|16 pages

Lawn of the Dead

The Indifference of Musical Destiny in Plants vs. Zombies