Metaphors and Embodied Meaning in Film Music

Albrecht, Henning; Wöllner, Clemens

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“…In anthropology, leitmotifs have been used to describe the intertwining of movement, psychology, and culture (see Astrov's [263] work on connections between the leitmotif and movement in Navajo folklore, for example). Albrecht and Wöllner [264] described the use of leitmotifs in film music as a medium for embodying the audience: by establishing direct and compelling connections between the feelings and the sense of movement that music streams can convey. Hallnäs and Redström [265] discussed the use of leitmotifs in computer-human interaction as a means to fold the notion of presence into design, by leveraging leitmotifs as a form of expression for artifacts, e.g., the leitmotif as an expression of a thing's functionality.…”

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Ten Traps for Non-Representational Theory in Human Geography

Torrens

2024

Geographies

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Non-Representational Theory (NRT) emphasizes the significance of routine experience in shaping human geography. In doing so, the theory largely eschews traditional approaches that have offered area-based, longitudinal, and synoptic formalisms for geographic inquiry. Instead, NRT prioritizes the roles of individualized and often dynamic lived geographies as they unfold in the moment. To date, NRT has drawn significant inspiration from the synergies that it shares with philosophy, critical geography, and self-referential ethnography. These activities have been tremendous in advancing NRT as a concept, but the theory’s strong ties to encounter and experience invariably call for practical exposition. Alas, applications of NRT to concrete examples at scales beyond small case studies often prove challenging, which we argue artificially constrains further development of the theory. In this paper, we examine some of the thorny problems that present in applying NRT in practical terms. Specifically, we identify ten traps that NRT can fall into when moving from theory to actuality. These traps include conundrums of small geographies, circularity in representation, cognitive traps, issues of mustering and grappling with detail, access issues, limitations with empiricism, problems of subjectivity, methodological challenges, thorny issues of translation, and the unwieldy nature of process dynamics. We briefly demonstrate a novel observational instrument that can sidestep some, but not all, of these traps.

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Ten Traps for Non-Representational Theory in Human Geography

Torrens

2024

Geographies

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“…Trainor and Trehub (1992), as well as Ziv and Goshen (2006), provided initial insights with music’s potential to convey meaning in itself or a spoken story. Intriguing perspectives, which have also received little or no attention in empirical research so far, are the leitmotif technique (Albrecht & Wöllner, 2016) or music’s function to set historical and cultural references. Of course, due to the focus on English and German studies, this review does not include all studies ever published that are relevant in the context of how music can convey meaning; possible gaps have to be filled by further research.…”

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On music’s potential to convey meaning in film: A systematic review of empirical evidence

Herget

2019

Psychology of Music

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With its schema-activating potential to influence an audience’s perception and interpretation of film plot and protagonists, film music goes far beyond the role of an emotionalizing accessory in film contexts. For this review, 24 German and English empirical studies that tested music’s potential to convey meaning were identified to be compared in their research questions, the characteristics of their methods, designs, samples, and stimulus materials, as well as main results. Depending on the degree of realism and the abstraction level of the audio-visual stimulus material, differently connoted music or music of different genres trigger supra-individual associations, which make the recipients’ perceptual patterns and evaluations of film plot and protagonists predictable. The review provides a systematization of music’s effects as well as methodological and content-related indications for future research.

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Metaphors and Embodied Meaning in Film Music

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Ten Traps for Non-Representational Theory in Human Geography

Ten Traps for Non-Representational Theory in Human Geography

On music’s potential to convey meaning in film: A systematic review of empirical evidence

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