Tobias Pontara is Associate Professor in Musicology at the University of Gothenburg. His research interests lie chiefly in film music, music philosophy and the cultural study of music. He has published in journals such as Philosophical studies, 19th-century music, Music, sound and the moving image, Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning / Swedish journal of music research, Music and the moving image and International review of the aesthetics and sociology of music. Pontara is currently working on a monograph examining the role and significance of music and sound in the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky’s films. tobias.pontara@gu.se