Identifying and Interpreting Incongruent Film Music

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by David Ireland

Type

Essays

Subject

Technique > Music

Keywords

music

Publishing date

2018

Publisher

Palgrave MacMillan

Collection

Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 260 pages
5 ¾ x 8 ¼ inches (14.5 x 21 cm)

ISBN

978-3-030-00505-4

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Book Presentation:
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.

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.

See the publisher website: Palgrave MacMillan