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Prosody (film studies) is a concept adapted from linguistics and phonetics, where it refers to the suprasegmental features of speech (such as intonation, stress, tempo, and rhythm) that convey meaning, emotion, and structure beyond individual words. In film studies, it is applied within the framework of multimodality to analyze the expressive and structural qualities arising from the interaction and organization of diverse filmic elements across visual, auditory, and temporal dimensions. This includes the rhythm of editing, the tempo of action, the dynamics of performance, the contour of sound design or music, and the overall pacing and flow of a film or sequence. The concept is utilized to investigate how the formal arrangement and interplay of these multimodal components contribute to the viewer's perception, emotional response, and interpretation of meaning, affect, and narrative structure within the filmic text.