How The Marvel Cinematic Universe Uses Music | Video Essay

“Soundtrack is Character” a video essay by Jordi Steel, discusses cinema’s history of using music in film as a form of auditory stimuli to inform character and story. He explains the history of music in classic cinema, leading into the use of “soundtrack” and copyrighted music in modern cinema, and then discusses how the films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe are highly effective in making music a part of a character’s presence.

This was created for a Video Essay module for Queen Margaret University.