Cinematic Listening: Film Music

Catalog description

In this course, students actively listen to the sonic elements of film and explore how changing notions of cinema and listening have shaped each other in American cinema throughout the twentieth century to today. Students investigate not only the holistic role of music and sound in the audiovisual experience of film throughout that history, but also the intentional and immersive approach of cinematic listening. Through cinematic listening students imagine and interpret how music and sound convey meaning, emotion, atmosphere, and narrative in film. IIA, IIB. PA-3A, SI-04.