Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction
2. "The Most Beautiful Area": Soundtrack's Liminal Spaces
3. Scoring with Sound, the Aesthetics of Reticence, and Films of Peter Strickland
4. Musicalized Sound Design and the Erotics of Cinema
5. The Musicalization of Speech and the Breakdown of the Film Soundtrack Hierarchy
6. Concluding Thoughts

Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Danijela Kulezic-Wilson teaches film music, film sound, and intermedia at University College Cork. Her research interests include approaches to film that emphasize its inherent musical properties, the musicality of sound design, and musical aspects of Beckett's plays. She is the author of The Musicality of Narrative Film (2015) and co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Sound Design and Music in Screen Media: Integrated
Soundtracks (2016).

Reviews

"Sound Design is the New Score not only encourages us to appreciate the work of the creatives behind the films rep-resented but also our own rich experiences as we navigate what these, and films and art more broadly, can sound and feel like." -- Twentieth-Century Music
"Surprisingly little has been written about film soundtracks that integrate music with other sound elements. Kulezic-Wilson has produced the first sustained and authoritative study. This has been a greatly anticipated book and it certainly doesn't disappoint. Her argument about approaching the soundtracks as a not only holistic field but also as essentially musical is thoroughly persuasive and will supply a firm foundation for future soundtrack scholarship for
many years to come." -- Kevin Donnelly, author of Magical Musical Tour: Rock and Pop in Film Soundtracks (2015) and Occult Aesthetics: Sound and Image Synchronization (2013)
"Kulezic-Wilson dissolves the boundaries between sound design and music that dominate cinema studies. She teaches us why all cinematic kinds of sonic information (noises, silences, dialogue, and music) are 'composed' for us to feel them emotionally, cognitively, physically, and lastingly." -- Elsie Walker, author of Hearing Haneke: the Sound Tracks of a Radical Auteur (2017), and Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory (2015)