Books in the Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture series

This edited collection deals with musical moments in film as one of the most pivotal and compelling issues of current film music research.

This book offers a fresh approach to British film music by tracing the influence of Britain's musical heritage on the film scores of this era.

This book explores the concept of incongruent film music, challenging the idea that this label only describes music that is inappropriate or misfitting for a film's images and narrative.

Intersecting Film, Music, and Queerness uses musicology and queer theory to uncover meaning and message in canonical American cinema.

The Sounds of Silent Films is a unique collection of investigatory and theoretical essays that, for the first time, unite up-to-date research on the complex historical performance practices of silent film accompaniment with in-depth analyses of relevant case studies.

Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, The Visual Music Film explores the concept and expression of musicality in the visual music film, in which visual presentations are given musical attributes such as rhythmical form, structure and harmony.

The Musicality of Narrative Film is the first book to examine in depth the film/music analogy. Using comparative analysis, Kulezic-Wilson explores film's musical potential, arguing that film's musicality can be achieved through various cinematic devices, with or without music.

In recent years, there has been something of an explosion in the performance of live music to silent films. This book is the first of its kind in that it aims to bring together writings and interviews to delineate the culture of providing music for silent films.