Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: The article considers some stages of theoretical understanding and practice of the use of music in feature cinema since the start of the development of sound cinema that were significant in the interaction of music with the visual in cinema. The analysis, in terms of their mutual interplay, historically unfolds in two directions. The first is a synthesis with a visual image based on the unification of a common idea and the subordination of music to the visual component of the film. The second is the acquisition of certain autonomy, independence in the general structure of the screen work. This process of communication owes a lot to the growing role of music in cinema and to the active use of modern compositional technologies in the creation of film music. Despite the popularity of film music, the importance of its use in films of the past and present, the issues of creative dialogue of music and screen in terms of autonomy and synthesis in a single work of art, in our opinion, are insufficiently studied. As a result of the research, the important aspects of creative dialogue of music and visual series in cinema are outlined. The characteristics of the processes of autonomy and synthesis that take place in films are highlighted. It is substantiated changes in filmmaking happen in the communicative interaction of the abovementioned processes. The existence of the principles of complementarity — synthesis and counterpoint or autonomy — between the musical and visual components in the system of drama of screen works has undergone various interpretations in its historical development. These processes in the evolution of cinema and until now mirror the needs of society, features of cultural development, as well as the filmmaking technologies.
Source: Artistic Culture Topical Issues
Author: Polina Kharchenko
Language: English
Topic: Cinema History and Criticism
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4200330350