@inproceedings{gillick-bamman-2018-telling,
    title = "Telling Stories with Soundtracks: An Empirical Analysis of Music in Film",
    author = "Gillick, Jon  and
      Bamman, David",
    editor = "Mitchell, Margaret  and
      Huang, Ting-Hao {`}Kenneth{'}  and
      Ferraro, Francis  and
      Misra, Ishan",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the First Workshop on Storytelling",
    month = jun,
    year = "2018",
    address = "New Orleans, Louisiana",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/iwcs-25-ingestion/W18-1504/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W18-1504",
    pages = "33--42",
    abstract = "Soundtracks play an important role in carrying the story of a film. In this work, we collect a corpus of movies and television shows matched with subtitles and soundtracks and analyze the relationship between story, song, and audience reception. We look at the content of a film through the lens of its latent topics and at the content of a song through descriptors of its musical attributes. In two experiments, we find first that individual topics are strongly associated with musical attributes, and second, that musical attributes of soundtracks are predictive of film ratings, even after controlling for topic and genre."
}