Rather, the cinematic record of his experiences serves as a shared memory, between him and the viewers who are empathizing with his experiences.
It is above all an inherently dramatic, almost cinematic conceptualization.
Slippages of musical function are not unusual in cinematic narrative.
Films that take music as their central subject raise special questions about the role of music in cinematic representation.
Yet, to be effective and make sense, cinematic codes must also rely on cultural musical codes that are prevalent outside cinema in the wider community.
For the earliest films, there did not yet exist any localized cinema architecture especially designed for cinematic presentation.
During the narrative a functional slippage occurs between music, the product of a performed moment on screen, and music, the cinematic tool of narrative characterization.
The new cinematic technologies mesmerized audiences in ways that the most imaginative showman could never hope to with his primitive animation efforts.
