@article{1482675,
      recid = {1482675},
      author = {Audissino, Emilio. and Wennekes, Emile.},
      title = {Palgrave handbook of music in comedy cinema [electronic  resource] /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      address = {Cham :},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      year = {2023},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {Whats been missing from the literature on film music a  sustained study of music in the genre of film comedy has  now been supplied by Emilio Audissino and Emile Wennekes in  a masterful and inclusive anthology devoted to how music  makes us laugh. Audissino and Wennekes have taken an  interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and multinational  approach that informs the individual contributions all of  which take funny music very seriously. Sure to be the  standard reference in the field. - Kathryn Kalinak,  Professor of Film Studies, Rhode Island College, US This  handbook tackles the understudied relationship between  music and comedy cinema by analysing the nature,  perception, and function of music from fresh perspectives.  Its approach is not only multidisciplinary, but also  interdisciplinary in its close examination of how music and  other cinematic devices interact in the creation of comedy.  The volume addresses gender representation, national  identities, stylistic strategies, and employs inputs from  cultural studies, musicology, music theory, psychology,  cognitivism, semiotics, formal and stylistic film analysis,  and psychoanalysis. It is organised in four sections:  general introductions, theoretical investigations, music  and comedy within national cinemas, and exemplary case  studies of films or authors. Emilio Audissino is Associate  Professor at Linnaeus University, Sweden. His research  interests are film and television history; audio-visual  style and techniques; screenwriting; neo formalist film  analysis; comedy; horror; and sound and music in media.  Notably, he is the author of The Film Music of John  Williams. Reviving Hollywood's Classical Style (2021/2014)  and of Film/Music Analysis. A Film Studies Approach (2017).  Emile Wennekes is Chair Professor of Musicology: Music and  Media at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. He is the  author of multiple books and edited volumes, as well as  some hundred scholarly book chapters, articles, and  conference presentations. Among his most recent  publications are two co-edited books entitled Advances in  Speech and Music Technology (2021; 2023 with a.o. Anupam  Biswas). Wennekes chairs the Study Group Music and Media  (MaM) of the International Musicological Society.  Previously, Audissino and Wennekes edited the volume Cinema  Changes: Incorporation of Jazz in the Film Soundtrack  (2019).},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1482675},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33422-1},
}