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Mar 26, 2019 · Guest editor Annabel J. Cohen framed this special issue as “the first collection of articles devoted entirely to the experimental psychology of film music” (Cohen, 1994, p. 2), containing articles by researchers who were “pioneers in a new field” (p. 7). Indeed, before the 1990s, the study of music’s function in the cinematic context ...
- Ann-Kristin Herget
- 2021
Experiments are proposed to reveal the similarity in the mental processes engaged by music and film for each of the three types of structure, respectively. The application of principles and methods of music cognition to film psychology supports the intuitions of early psychological film theorists. The approach also generalizes to other art forms.
This article aims to contribute to understanding of what film music means and how these meanings are processed in the cross-modal perception of a film. A review of the selected empirical research on film music with regard to meaning is followed by a short overview of the Annabel J. Cohen’s Congruence-Association Model (CAM) of media cognition.
- Agnieszka Cieślak-Krupa
These findings both support and extend the “Congruence Associationist Model” (A. J. Cohen, 2001), which addresses those cognitive mechanisms involved in the processing of music/film information. Film theorists have long acknowledged the role of music within the movie-viewing experience (Bordwell & Thompson, 1979; Giannetti, 1982; Johnson ...
- Marilyn Gail Boltz
- 2004
Cognitive psychology, with its focus on mind and its processes, is one of the approaches to study film music. Although music alone is said to be already meaningful, it gains and transfers specific meanings in the film context. This article aims to contribute to understanding of what film music means and how these meanings are processed in the ...
- Annabel Cohen
This chapter reviews evidence from media sciences and experimental psychology that music modulates the emotional experiences induced by a film, often increasing the intensity of such experiences. In addition, recent neuroscientific research is presented that provides the most probable neural bases of these effects, extended by a short review of recent findings in the neuroimaging literature on ...
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Abstract. Music in film achieves a number of things: it establishes setting; it creates atmosphere; it calls attention to elements within the frame; it reinforces or foreshadows narrative developments; it gives meaning to a characters’ actions or translates their thoughts; it creates emotion and resonates it between the audience and the screen.
