The Image of a Musician in a Film: Typological Analysis

The article addresses one of the main problems of films about musicians, namely, the dramatic and directorial approach to the presenting an artistically authentic, lively image of a musician. A general overview of feature and documentary films about musicians reveals diverse ways of representing individuality and the inner world of a character, as well as identifying a certain personality type. Surveying the images of musicians in a fairly representative number of films, the author proposes a typology based on the protagonist's relationship with music and, through music, with society: creative and innovative (“creators”); performing (“reciters-translators”, “readers-dialogists”, “psychosomatics”, “dictators”, “divas”); intuitive-spiritual (“mediums”).