Study on the Relationship between Cinema Language and Sound Image

Abstract

This paper commences with some introductory points on the relationship between cinema language and sound image. It highlights arguments put forward by film-music scholars and theoreticians such as Claudia Gorbman, Kathryn Kalinak, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Paul Willemen and Wlad Goldizh in particular. This paper also engages with these various perspectives in order to both assess their claims and outline the resultant debates on the relationship between music and image in cinema in general. Keywords—cinema language; sound image; the relationship between music and image