Furthermore, the need to justify the scholarship has evolved into a question of
what should be done with it now that it exists: there is no better use than to
pinpoint individual scores that have played a significant role in how composers
write film music, in the way audiences hear it, in directorial perceptions of it, and
in how scholars have theorised about it. The Series is, similarly, intended to
reflect the variety of people who enjoy, experience and understand film music,
drawing together contextual and experiential ideas with academic concepts of
film studies and critical and analytical musicology. The Series Guides can be
used in an academic context to support courses on film music, but they can also
be enjoyed for their insight into the individual scores which have formed the love
of film music experienced by many.

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