TY - JOUR
T1 - Unsettling Melodies: A Cognitive Approach to Incongruent Film Music
AU - Willemsen, Steven
AU - Kiss, Miklós
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - film music
KW - affective congruence
KW - polarization
KW - incongruence
KW - cognitive-ecological theory
U2 - 10.2478/ausfm-2014-0022
DO - 10.2478/ausfm-2014-0022
M3 - Article
SN - 2065-5924
VL - 7
SP - 169
EP - 183
JO - Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies
JF - Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies
IS - 1
ER -