The Palgrave Handbook of Music in Comedy Cinema

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Edited by Emilio Audissino and Emile Wennekes

Type: Studies
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Keywords: comedy, music
Publishing date: 2023
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English

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Hardcover • 820 pages
6 ½ x 9 ¾ inches (16.5 x 25 cm)

ISBN

978-3-031-33421-4

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Book Presentation:
This handbook tackles the understudied relationship between music and comedy cinema by analysing the nature, perception, and function of music from fresh perspectives. Its approach is not only multidisciplinary, but also interdisciplinary in its close examination of how music and other cinematic devices interact in the creation of comedy. The volume addresses gender representation, national identities, stylistic strategies, and employs inputs from cultural studies, musicology, music theory, psychology, cognitivism, semiotics, formal and stylistic film analysis, and psychoanalysis. It is organised in four sections: general introductions, theoretical investigations, music and comedy within national cinemas, and exemplary case studies of films or authors.

About the authors:
Emilio Audissino is Associate Professor at Linnaeus University, Sweden. His research interests are film and television history; audio-visual style and techniques; screenwriting; neo formalist film analysis; comedy; horror; and sound and music in media. Notably, he is the author of The Film Music of John Williams. Reviving Hollywood’s Classical Style (2021/2014) and of Film/Music Analysis. A Film Studies Approach (2017).Emile Wennekes is Chair Professor of Musicology: Music and Media at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. He is the author of multiple books and edited volumes, as well as some hundred scholarly book chapters, articles, and conference presentations. Among his most recent publications are two co-edited books entitled Advances in Speech and Music Technology (2021; 2023 – with a.o. Anupam Biswas). Wennekes chairs the Study Group Music and Media (MaM) of the InternationalMusicological Society. Previously, Audissino and Wennekes edited the volume Cinema Changes: Incorporation of Jazz in the Film Soundtrack (2019).

Press Reviews:
"This book offers a comprehensive treatment of musical comedy. It engages with theories of comedy, accounting for its lower status than tragedy and the role of music in creating comical effects. In also analyses numerous case studies of musical comedies and other types of films in which music sounds funny, from the early sound films to contemporary movies. It is thus an obligatory book for everybody interested in film comedy, film music and their interface." (Ewa Mazierska, Professor of Film Studies, University of Central Lancashire, UK)

"What’s been missing from the literature on film music--a sustained study of music in the genre of film comedy ―has now been supplied by Emilio Audissino and Emile Wenneckes in a masterful and inclusive anthology devoted to how music makes us laugh. Audissino and Wenneckes have taken an interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and multinational approach that informs the individual contributions all of which take funny music very seriously. Sure to be the standard reference in the field." (Kathryn Kalinak, Professor of Film Studies, Rhode Island College, US)

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