Linguocultural characteristics of the anachronistic song soundtrack

The paper outlines specific features of the anachronistic song soundtrack, where contemporary songs are used in period films, and attempts to explain this phenomenon. It also describes types of correlation between the visual and the verbal component in a film that is the events of a film and sountrack song lyrics. For the purpose of a more vivid representation of the anachronistic soundtrack’s specific characteristics, the author has also considered music videos of songs by several modern English and American artists of various genres.