Music has been an integral part of film exhibition from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century. With the arrival of sound film in the late 1920s, music became part of a complex multimedia text. Although industry, fan-oriented, and scholarly literatures on film music have existed from early on, and music was frequently among the topics discussed and disputed, only in the past thirty years has sustained scholarly attention gone to music in visual media, beginning with the feature film. The ...

• 1 Overview
• David Neumeyer
• PART 1: Film Music : Central Questions
• 2 Music and the Ontology of the Sound Film: The Classical Hollywood System
• James Buhler and David Neumeyer
• 3 Opera and Film
• Marcia Citron
• 4 Visual Representation of Film Sound as Analytical Tool
• Rick Altman
• 5 Film Music from the Perspective of Cognitive Science
• Annabel Cohen
• 6 Composing for Film: Hanns Eisler's Lifelong Film-Music Project
• Peter Schweinhardt and Johannes C Gall, translated by Ol...