Anempathetic sound

Anempathetic sound

Anempathetic sound in a film is the opposite of empathetic sound: sound—music or sound effects—that seems to exhibit a conspicuous indifference to what is going on in a film's plot, possibly thereby enhancing a sense of the tragic, as when a radio continues to play a happy tune when a character dies, or in Hitchcock's "Psycho" the continued sound of the shower running, as if nothing had happened.


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  • Empathetic sound — in a film is sound music or sound effects whose mood matches the mood of the present action or scene, such as a sad song playing during a depressing or upsetting scene. The opposite of empathetic sound is anempathetic sound …   Wikipedia

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