Puts forward a general theory of the manner in which different media—music, words, moving images, and dance—work together to create multimedia, and offers a descriptive terminology that encompasses both traditional genres (such as song and opera) and such contemporary ones as film, music video, and television commercials. Includes in-depth readings of the Rite of spring sequence from Disney’s Fantasia, Madonna’s Material girl video, and Godard’s Armide sequence from the collaborative film Aria.