Emilio Audissino is Associate Professor at Linnaeus University, Sweden. A film historian and film musicologist, he researches and teaches about Italian and Hollywood cinema; film narratology; neoformalist analysis; comedy; horror; and film music and sound. Most notably, he is the author of The Film Music of John Williams (2014/2021), Film Music in Concert (2021), and co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Music in Comedy Cinema (2023). He also published the first academic articles on the cinema of Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker.