Critiquing traditional models of the film score, The Synergy of Music and Image in Audiovisual Culture enables readers across music, film, and cultural studies to approach and think about audiovisual culture in new ways.

K.J. Donnelly is Professor of Film and Film Music and Director of Doctoral Programmes for Film at the University of Southampton.

1. Introduction: Conceiving Music's Relationship to Image

2. "The 'Ghostly Effect' Revisited": Film Music as Naked Effect

3. Musical Sound Design

4. The Classical Film Score: Persistence and Revival

5. Working with and Against Genre Tradition: De-Westernizing the Western

6. Cult: (Long Live) the New Silents

7. Resurfacing Film Heritage through Music

8. The Primal Psychology of Film Music

9. Music and Atmosphere: Music as 'Set'

10. Musicals, Commerce and Race: White Labels and Black Imports

11. Film's Relations with the Music Industry

12. Music as an Extra Imaginative Dimension

13. Game Mechanisms/Mechanics: The Indifference of Musical Destiny