Jady Jiang – författare

This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of how music represents enigma in film, shedding light on a subject that is both elusive and under-researched. Enigmatic phenomena, often inaccessible and hard to define, are regularly depicted in cinema. Music, with its intrinsic connection to emotion, enhances the representation and interpretation of these mysteries, providing an emotional understanding where science and logic may fall short. This book delves into the function of music in film, examining how it creates, intensifies, and addresses the inscrutable. The book categorizes enigmas into four main themes: religion, mythology, the paranormal, and the inexplicable, which serve as the structural foundation for the discussion. Through a musicological lens, it investigates how film music presents and invokes these enigmatic themes, analyzing the role of different music genres, sonic elements, and the relationship between sound and image. The book also explores the psychological mechanisms of musical perception, such as synaesthesia and Gestalt perception, that facilitate the comprehension of mysterious parameters in film music. This comprehensive study invites readers to consider the similarities in music attributes and psychological mechanisms when creating different types of enigmas in films. Readers will also discover how film music connotes ideological and cultural ideas, exploring the historical and cultural connotations that underpin the enigmatic undertones of music. This book is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of film studies, musicology, and cultural studies, as well as filmmakers and composers interested in the narrative power of music. It offers profound insights into the cultural and ideological connotations of film music, making it a must-read for anyone fascinated by the mysterious interplay of sound and image in cinema.