Quite late last night, my brother Luke sent me a link to this video about music as it is used in the Marvel films. I thought I would flag it up here, not because I’m particularly interested in the marvel comic book franchise – although, given it’s now bigger than bond, star wars and harry potter, a closer look might be in order – but because this video constitutes the type of thorough close textual analysis I’m interested in. As I said in my reply to Luke just now, ”In terms of proper theory, not much has been written about music in film. Recently though, there have been quite a few bits of good analysis about it. It’s interesting to see how forms of analysis are emerging online which are no less engaged with film than more traditional forms.” New manifestations of filmic love are emerging online which, while taking the form of chatty, upbeat ‘fun’ videos, are no less intellectually rigorous than that undertaken in prose. Mind you, I have yet to see anyone in a video reference someone like Lacan or Bazin, but it’s still early days yet.