Film/Music Analysis

Emilio Audissino is Associate Professor at Linnaeus University, Sweden. A film historian and film musicologist, he researches and teaches about Italian and Hollywood cinema; film narratology; neoformalist analysis; comedy; horror; and film music and sound. Most notably, he is the author of The Film Music of John Williams (2014/2021), Film Music in Concert (2021), and co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Music in Comedy Cinema (2023). He also published the first academic articles on the cinema of Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker.

• Introduction: Who Is Entitled to Study Film Music?.- PART 1: Pars Destruens.- Chapter 1: The Not-So-Fantastical Gap between Music Studies and Film Studies.- Chapter 2: Some Recent Attempts to Bridge the Gap.- PART 2: Pars Construens.- Chapter 3: The Neoformalist Proposal.- Chapter 4: Film/Music Analysis I: Music, Gestalt, and Audiovisual Isomorphism.- Chapter 5: Film/Music Analysis II: Functions and Motivations of Music.- Chapter 6: Film/Music Analysis III: Historiography and Film-Music Styles.- PART 3: Pars Demonstrans.- Chapter 7: A Few Illustrations of Film/Music Analysis.- Chapter 8: Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. The Extraterrestrial. The Bonding Power of Music.- Recapitulation and Final Thoughts.- References.- Filmography.