Foreword

This special edition takes its origin from a 2014 conference in which SERCIA (Société pour l’Enseignement et la Recherche du Cinéma Anglophone) brought to the forefront a specific dimension of the film-going experience often neglected or underdeveloped in film studies and analyses: the sonic dimension. Under the title “Music and Movies: National and Transnational Perspectives” the three-day conference was co-hosted by the Department of American Studies at Radboud University in Nijmegen. The c...