Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 169-183 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
Keywords
- film music
- affective congruence
- polarization
- incongruence
- cognitive-ecological theory