Unsettling Melodies: a Cognitive Approach to Incongruent Film Music

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Beteiligte: Willemsen, Steven
In: Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies, 2013, 07, S. 169-183
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ISSN: 2065-5924
2066-7779
EISSN: 2066-7779
veröffentlicht in: Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies
Sprache: Englisch
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Kollektion: CEEOL Central and Eastern European Online Library
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Incongruent film music is a soundtrack, either diegetic or non-diegetic, 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.