Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- The Development of Title Sequences -- Primary Recognition -- Emergent Identification -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Direct Synchronization -- The Synchronized -- Naturalistic Synchronization -- Diegetic and Non-Diegetic Synchronization -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Natural Artifice -- The "visual Music" Heritage -- The Ideology of Synchronization -- Illustrative Synchronization -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Counterpoint -- Reservations about the "Talkies"--Counterpoint Synchronization -- Quotational Counterpoint -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Songs and Voice-Over -- Music -- Title Songs -- Narrated Montages -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Conclusions -- The Statement of Synchronization -- The Immanence of Ideology -- The Role of Music and Theme Songs -- Notes -- Index