Here is a reminder that the CfP for “Intercultural Intersections of Film, Multimedia, and Improvisation” closes tomorrow, Monday, February 9, at 11:59 pm (EST). This year, the SMT interest groups are now adopting a new rotation plan with 2 years on, and 1 year off. As the FMIG is “off” for SMT 2026 with no dedicated meeting…[Read more]

Hopefully, your 2026 is off to a promising start. This year, the SMT interest groups are now adopting a new rotation plan with 2 years on, and 1 year off. As the FMIG is “off” for SMT 2026, we will not have a dedicated meeting slot at the upcoming SMT 2026 conference. In light of this, we accepted an invitation to collaborate wit…[Read more]

Please join us on Friday, July 18 from 8-10pm EST for a film music mixer, jointly hosted by the AMS Music and Media study group and the SMT Film and Multimedia interest group. At this meeting, we’ll be discussing the soundtracks to two wonderful Studio Ghibli coming of age films scored by the eminent Joe Hisaishi, Kiki’s Del…[Read more]

The SMT Film and Multimedia Interest Group and AMS Music and Media Study Group are organizing a 2025 Summer Film Music Mixer and we'd like your help planning!

The plan is to meet a TBD evening in mid-July (in the past, this has typically been a later-evening start time in Eastern Standard time) for 1-2 hours and discuss a…[Read more]

The SMT Film and Multimedia Interest Group (FMIG) is pleased to announce the two winners of the 2024 SMT FMIG Publication Awards:

Karen Cook, “8-Bit Affordances: Jun Chikuma’s Soundtrack to Faxanadu,” Music Theory Online 29/3 (2023)

Frank Lehman, “The ‘Indiana Jones’ series is back, along with the iconic music of John Willia…[Read more]

I’m pleased to share with you the Call for Paper for the Working Group/Seminar session for the upcoming MLA Convention in Toronto. See https://mla.confex.com/mla/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Paper29934.html.

Best wishes,

Vivien Jiaqian Zhu

We had a wonderful meeting in Jacksonville! We hosted a session of lightning talks considering the last/next ten years of multimedia scholarship, including presentations by Laine Gruver, Adam Rizzo, Austin Wilson, and Clair Nguyen. The session also included two invited presentations by the group's founders, Juan Chattah and Frank…[Read more]

Don’t forget that our FMIG meeting will be on Saturday (November 9) at 7:00 PM in City Terrace 9. Follow the link below for more information about the wonderful presentations in store.

https://www.conftool.org/smt2024/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=48

I’ll also mention here (an…[Read more]

We have two wonderful nominees to take over as the co-chairs for the Film and Multimedia IG for the next two years, Clair Nguyen and Chelsea Oden. In order to officially inaugurate them, we will have a confirmation vote using the Google form linked below. This will require you to log in to a Google account, but the ballot will not…[Read more]

For this year’s meetup, we will be hosting a session of lightning talks that consider the last ten years and the next ten y…[Read more]

This serves as a reminder that the AMS Music and Media Study Group and the SMT Film and Multimedia Interest Group are organizing a Virtual Movie Discussion Hangout for Friday, August 16, 2024, at 8:00 PM EDT.

We are preparing a “double feature” considering Shirley Walker’s score to Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993) in coordin…[Read more]

The Film and Multimedia Interest Group has been meeting for over a decade to promote and expand scholarship in the discipline. The political, socio-cultural, technological, and economic upheavals of the past ten years have caused dramatic changes to academic…[Read more]

The AMS Music and Media Study Group and the SMT Film and Multimedia Interest Group are organizing a Virtual Movie Discussion Hangout for Friday, August 16, 2024, at 8:00 PM EDT. Our plan with this event is to discuss film music in a casual, informal setting.

We are preparing a “double feature” considering Shirley Walker’s score to [Read more]

Program Committee:
Carissa Baker, University of Central Florida
Jason Brame, Walt Disney World
Elizabeth Randell Upton, University of California Los Angeles
Dan White, University of Huddersfield

The conference All Ears: Music and Sound in and Beyond Disney Theme Parks will be held at the University of Central Florida, Rosen…[Read more]

There's Frank Lehman's “Manufacturing the Epic Score: Hans Zimmer and the Sounds of Significance” in Routledge's Music in Epic Film: Listening to Spectacle from 2016. Frank also delves into some of Zimmer's music in his book.

More recently, there's a well-written master's thesis by University of Uppsala's Renske Akkerman called "Fi…[Read more]

Nominations are open for our interest group Publication Award! Any peer-reviewed article or book chapter on the topic of film or multimedia music published within the previous three calendar years (2021, 2022, or 2023) is eligible. Anyone may nominate a publication, and self-nominations are…[Read more]

https://maxsteinerinstitute.org/theoryexamples/index.php

If you have film music examples that you use in your theory classes, please help us by ADDING them to the website (which is just getting started and needs some more…[Read more]

This serves as the final reminder that our upcoming Film and Multimedia Interest Group meeting is scheduled for 7:30 PM on Friday, November 10, in the “Silver” meeting room. We will be hosting a session of fabulous Work-in-Progress Lightning Talks by Abigail Shupe, Eileen Snyder, Chelsea Oden, Gui Hwan Lee, and Morgan Weeks. We wil…[Read more]

We are excited to invite all of you to our upcoming Film and Multimedia Interest Group meeting at the SMT Annual Meeting in Denver this November! The meeting is scheduled for 7:30 PM on Friday, November 10. For this year’s meetup, we will be hosting a session of Work-in-Progress Lightning Talks.

The presenters will offer 1…[Read more]

When Walt Disney created Disneyland, his ambition was to revolutionise the amusement park as a form of entertainment. His design philosophy of the theme park was one of a m…[Read more]

This serves as a reminder that the AMS Music and Media Study Group and the SMT Film and Multimedia Interest Group will host a Virtual Movie Discussion Hangout for Friday, August 11, 2023, at 8:00 PM EDT.

We are preparing to discuss the Director’s Cut of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (written and directed by Steven Spielberg, s…[Read more]

The AMS Music and Media Study Group and the SMT Film and Multimedia Interest Group are organizing a Virtual Movie Discussion Hangout for Friday, August 11, 2023, at 8:00 PM EDT. Our plan with this event is to discuss a movie and its music in a casual, informal setting.

For our first attempt at this endeavor, we are preparing to d…[Read more]