Táhirih Motazedian is Assistant Professor of Music at Vassar College. Before her career in music theory, she worked for NASA as a planetary scientist and mission operations specialist.

"Film music scholarship has welcomed an abundance of new methodologies in the last decade, offering researchers fresh tools to study audiovisual media. Táhirih Motazedian is an inspired addition to this mix. Motazedian breaks new ground by demonstrating how keys, pitch centers, and large-scale tonality – long neglected as irrelevant in film music analysis– can reveal and reinforce narrative meaning."

• ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Preface—The Scope of This Book 1 The Theoretical Groundwork for Film Tonality 2 Tonal Analysis of the Soundtrack 3 Filmic Characters Rising Up and Settling Down 4 A Tale of Two (Tonally Symmetrical) Films 5 Unheard Sound Effects 6 Happy Accidents: Intentionality and Other Closing Thoughts Appendix—Working Method for Creating a “Tonal Score” Glossary Bibliography Index