Autorialità condivisa e processo compositivo a Hollywood: Weill e Ronell in One Touch of Venus by Marida Rizzuti

“…The film Musical One Touch of Venus becomes an ideal case study for investigating the relationship between composer and arranger, defining a practice of shared authorship in soundtrack making. …”
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Pop/Poetry: <i>Dickinson</i> as Remix by Julia Leyda, Maria Sulimma

“…<i>Dickinson</i> showcases creator Alena Smith’s well-researched knowledge of the poet and her work, while simultaneously mocking popular (mis)conceptions about her life and that of other literary figures such as Walt Whitman and Sylvia Plath, all set to a contemporary soundtrack. This analysis of <i>Dickinson</i> proposes to bring into conversation shifting boundaries of high and low culture across generations and engage with critical debates about the utility of the popular (and of studies of the popular) in literary and cultural studies in particular.…”
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Fictionalising Shakespeare’s ‘Lost Years’: Will’s Rise to Fame by Ana-Maria Moga

“…For instance, Will’s arrival in London and his struggles are juxtaposed with a soundtrack that is comprised of modern rock songs, while the characters’ costumes, make-up, colourful hair and tattoos are reminiscent of popular culture films such as The Hunger Games or Star Wars, as well as of the punk rock culture of the 1970s. …”
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Compliments in Audiovisual Translation – issues in character identity by Isabel Fernandes Silva, Jane Rodrigues Duarte

“…These differences lead to a different portrayal/identity/perception of the main character in the English version (original soundtrack) and subtitled versions in Portuguese and Italian.…”
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Exploring the Relationship Between Viewer Experience and Movie Genre – A Study Based on Text Mining of Online Movie Reviews by Urszula Świerczyńska-Kaczor

“…These factors relate to, for example, the product features (e.g. the recognized movie director, movie stars, soundtrack, and the historical context of the plot), and different touch points (e.g. movie distribution channel). …”
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Representing Immigration Detainees: The Juxtaposition of Image and Sound in "Border Country" by Melanie Friend

“…I finally produced a juxtaposition of photographs of immigration removal centre landscapes and interiors (devoid of people) with a soundtrack of oral testimonies. The voices of individual detainees could be heard at listening stations within the gallery spaces or on the publication's audio CD. …”
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Film Culture and the Psychology of Sound. A Case Study by Monica Georgescu

“…An analysis of the soundtrack of Disney’s Frozen was attempted in order to highlight music’s potential to influence one’s perception and interpretation of the film.…”
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Exploitation didactique d'une pièce de théâtre en classe de FLE - apprendre le français par le théâtre by CHIRIȚESCU, Ileana Mihaela

“…Theater means symbols that include characters, makeup, costumes, music, colors, soundtrack, painting. According to his vision, each person has an illusion about the world of theater performance - poetic, sentimental, cheerful, sad or melancholic illusion. …”
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Recycling sound in Commercials by Charlotte Rørdam Larsen

“…The OMA commercials are no exception, but the OMA melody makes a distinction. In general the soundtracks of OMA margarine commercials (and the use of melody) seem to have shifted from using a predominantly semantic causal soundtrack to tracks using aesthetic and musicalised elements which are supposed to arouse more sensuous feelings in the consumers.…”
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Do video sounds interfere with auditory event-related potentials? by McArthur, G, Bishop, D, Proudfoot, M

“…This concern was tested with 19 adults who were instructed to ignore standard and deviant tones presented through headphones while they watched a video with the soundtrack audible in one condition and silent in the other. …”

Decidophobia – an Artistic Research on the Possibilities of Immersive Environments by Elke Eve Reinhuber

“…A perfect labyrinth is all around, no orientation is possible, paths appear and disappear again, vanish completely, but new possibilities open up. The soundtrack underlines the visual experience: passers-by are expressing their confusion by questioning where they actually are, where they should go to, which path to take and where they came from. …”
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“A river with many branches”: song as a response to Afrophobic sentiments and violence in South Africa by Martina Viljoen

“…The question considered is how healing metaphors featured in these songs oppose a politics of fear and the idea of the other as enemy in “Umshini wami”, described in the media as the ‘soundtrack’ of the deadly Afrophobic upsurge of 2008. …”
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Exploring Symbolic Competence: Constructing Meaning(s) and Stretching Cultural Imagination in an Intermediate College-Level French Class by Corinne Étienne, Sylvie Vanbaelen

“…Each group worked on only one component of the scene (soundtrack and script; subtitles; or scene without sound) and stretched its imagination to answer a questionnaire about the meaning of the scene compensating for the semiotic gap. …”
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How Subtle Protocol Choices Can Affect Biological Conclusions: Great Tits' Response to Allopatric Mobbing Calls by Ambre Salis, Jean-Paul Lena, Thierry Lengagne

“…We first discuss how subtle protocol choices, especially regarding the soundtrack preparation and playback methodology, can explain variation in the results. …”
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Silence as an element producer of moods/atmospheres in the film Rififi, by Jules Dassin by Diogo Rossi Ambiel Facini

“…The silence in this scene is represented by the absence of the speeches and the musical soundtrack (not by a complete absence of sound). This subject is discussed on the basis of some authors. …”
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Le poesie della rivoluzione egiziana e la loro riproduzione come testi multimodali in YouTube: <em>al-Midàn</em> (La Piazza) di Abd al-Rahmàn al-Abnudi by Lorenzo Casini

“…The article considers several versions of al-Midàn uploaded on YouTube and highlights the process by which the poem was transformed by each user into a (re) newed multimodal text, where different semiotic resources interact: the reading of the poem, the video images, and (if present) the soundtrack. These videos were viewed and commented on by hundreds of thousands of YouTube users in the weeks following the writing of the poem and have made a decisive contribution to the shaping of the revolution’s collective imaginary.…”
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Music Emotion Recognition Based on a Neural Network with an Inception-GRU Residual Structure by Xiao Han, Fuyang Chen, Junrong Ban

“…A one-dimensional (1D) residual Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) with an improved Inception module and Gate Recurrent Unit (GRU) was presented and tested on the Soundtrack dataset. Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) was used to process the samples experimentally and determine their spectral characteristics. …”
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“A river with many branches”: song as a response to Afrophobic sentiments and violence in South Africa by Martina Viljoen

“…The question considered is how healing metaphors featured in these songs oppose a politics of fear and the idea of the other as enemy in “Umshini wami”, described in the media as the ‘soundtrack’ of the deadly Afrophobic upsurge of 2008. …”
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Viewers can keep up with fast subtitles: Evidence from eye movements. by Agnieszka Szarkowska, Olivia Gerber-Morón

“…This study looks into whether viewers can keep up with increasingly fast subtitles and whether the way people cope with subtitled content depends on their familiarity with subtitling and on their knowledge of the language of the film soundtrack. We tested 74 English, Polish and Spanish viewers watching films subtitled at different speeds (12, 16 and 20 characters per second). …”
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A computational lens into how music characterizes genre in film. by Benjamin Ma, Timothy Greer, Dillon Knox, Shrikanth Narayanan

“…We construct supervised neural network models with various pooling mechanisms to predict a film's genre from its soundtrack. We use these models to compare handcrafted music information retrieval (MIR) features against VGGish audio embedding features, finding similar performance with the top-performing architectures. …”
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