El interlenguaje musical en el cine: transculturalidad e integración comunicativa

Abstract

Music in film frequently grounds its effectiveness as signifier in a certain empirical codification shared with the audience. This participation does not impose a unique and necessary meaning, but only mediates between the apparently objective construction of the film and the viewer´s subjectivity. Proceeding in a symbolic mode, music introduces a meta-textual element which only achieves a meaning inside the viewer´s imagination and which adapts the message to their own paradigm and therefore allows interpretation from various sociocultural contexts. This circumstance justifies music language in film to be normally accepted, comprehended and employed in numerous production centres which belong to different sociocultural backgrounds, demonstrating a global communication vehicle capable of allowing signification codes from a particular environment to surpass their limits and be assimilated by other social dominions different from the original, with the consequent potential for education and communicative integration.