Emilio Audissino
A film historian and film musicologist, Emilio Audissino is currently Associate Professor at Universitas Mercatorum, Rome, Italy. He holds one PhD in History of Visual and Performing Arts from the University of Pisa (Italy) and one PhD in Film Studies from the University of Southampton (UK).
His research interests are film and television history; sound and music in film and media; audiovisual style and technique; screenwriting; neoformalist film analysis; comedy; horror; Gestalt and cognitivist film theories; the psychology of music; the aesthetic, history, and forms of concert performances of the film-music repertoire.
He is the author of The Film Music of John Williams. Reviving Hollywood’s Classical Style (University of Wisconsin Press, 2021, second revised and expanded edition of the 2014 book John Williams’s Film Music), the first book-length study in English on the composer, and the editor of the collection of essays John Williams. Music for Films, Television and the Concert Stage (Brepols, 2018). His book Film/Music Analysis. A Film Studies Approach (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) concerns a method for audiovisual analysis that blends Neoformalism and Gestalt Psychology. For Cambridge University Press, he published Film Music in Concert (2021), a case study of the concert presentation of the film-music repertoire. With Emile Wennekes (Utrecht University), he co-edited the volume Cinema Changes: Incorporations of Jazz in the Film Soundtrack (Brepols, 2019) and The Palgrave Handbook of Music in Comedy Cinema (2023).
He has been a consultant or guest for BBC Radio (UK), WGBH/WCRB Radio (USA), Radio France Culture, FranceTV, WPB (Wisconsin Public Radio, USA), KPCC Southern California (USA), and SVT (Sweden’s public television). Some of his writing commissions include works for the Library of the Congress (USA), the Milan Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of La Scala, (Milan), Decca/Universal Records, Piano Classics, Bloomsbury’s Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, and the Oxford University Press Bibliographies Online.
Supervisors: Prof. Kevin J. Donnelly
His research interests are film and television history; sound and music in film and media; audiovisual style and technique; screenwriting; neoformalist film analysis; comedy; horror; Gestalt and cognitivist film theories; the psychology of music; the aesthetic, history, and forms of concert performances of the film-music repertoire.
He is the author of The Film Music of John Williams. Reviving Hollywood’s Classical Style (University of Wisconsin Press, 2021, second revised and expanded edition of the 2014 book John Williams’s Film Music), the first book-length study in English on the composer, and the editor of the collection of essays John Williams. Music for Films, Television and the Concert Stage (Brepols, 2018). His book Film/Music Analysis. A Film Studies Approach (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) concerns a method for audiovisual analysis that blends Neoformalism and Gestalt Psychology. For Cambridge University Press, he published Film Music in Concert (2021), a case study of the concert presentation of the film-music repertoire. With Emile Wennekes (Utrecht University), he co-edited the volume Cinema Changes: Incorporations of Jazz in the Film Soundtrack (Brepols, 2019) and The Palgrave Handbook of Music in Comedy Cinema (2023).
He has been a consultant or guest for BBC Radio (UK), WGBH/WCRB Radio (USA), Radio France Culture, FranceTV, WPB (Wisconsin Public Radio, USA), KPCC Southern California (USA), and SVT (Sweden’s public television). Some of his writing commissions include works for the Library of the Congress (USA), the Milan Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of La Scala, (Milan), Decca/Universal Records, Piano Classics, Bloomsbury’s Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, and the Oxford University Press Bibliographies Online.
Supervisors: Prof. Kevin J. Donnelly
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