Unsettling Melodies: a Cognitive Approach to Incongruent Film Music

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Beteiligte: Willemsen, Steven, Kiss, Miklós
In: Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies, 7, 2013, 1, S. 169-183
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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Umfang: 169-183
ISSN: 2066-7779
DOI: 10.2478/ausfm-2014-0022
veröffentlicht in: Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies
Sprache: Englisch
Kollektion: Walter de Gruyter GmbH (CrossRef)
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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p> Incongruent film music is a soundtrack, either diegetic or nondiegetic, which expresses qualities that stand in contrast to the emotions evoked by the events seen. The present article aims at covering two interconnected areas; the first is comprised of a critical recapitulation of available theoretical accounts of incongruent film music, whilst the second part of the paper offers an alternative, embodied-cognitive explanation of the audio-visual conflict which arises from this particular type of incongruence. Rather than regarding it as a phenomenon that works through disrupting conventions, we stress a perceptual-cognitive reason behind incongruence’s emotional strangeness. </jats:p>