Essays on Film Music

This study guide examines Peter Weir’s film The Truman Show’ released on October 9, 1998. It is aimed at students of GCSE, A Level, Scottish Standard, Scottish Higher and GNVQ Media Studies and English Language. Areas covered in this study guide and the accompanying BBC Learning Zone television programme focus on representation and reality, forms…

To compare and contrast a film, you must go beyond simply describing the film and analysis of the film overall. The films that will be looked at in a more in depth way are Children of Men directed by Alfonso Cuaron and The Birds directed by Alfred Hitchcock. These two films are commonly referred to…

The world’s universal language, music, has had an intricate relationship with film performance, even before the inception of sound in film. Despite this close association, its use in cinematic tradition isn’t uniform. This lack of uniformity serves as a means to distinguish between traditions. The musical dimension is one of the principal levels on which…

From the small town of Abingdon, Oxfordshire, came five lads that quickly became one of the most influential bands of the 21st century known as Radiohead. Radiohead is so fluid with their music that it can appeal to all types of music listeners, whether it be visceral and big guitars, abstract and no guitars, or…

The term stereotype is defined as generalizations about a group of people whereby we attribute a defined set of characteristics to this group, which can be interpreted as positive or negative classifications. The Hollywood industry has turned the use of stereotypes in film and television into a financial “cash cow”. The formula of taking the…