Thursday 6th July 2023

Speakers

Emilio Audissino

A film historian and film musicologist, Emilio Audissino is currently Associate Professor at Linnaeus  University, Sweden. His research interests are film and television history; screenwriting; neoformalist  film and media analysis; comedy; horror; and sound and music for film and media. Besides journal  articles and book chapters, he is the author of the monographs The Film Music of John Williams.  Reviving Hollywood’s Classical Style (2014/2021) the first book-length study in English on the  composer, Film/Music Analysis. A Film Studies Approach (2017), and Film Music in Concert (2021).  His current research focus is on comedy, with published and forthcoming articles on Zucker Abrahams-Zucker trio, and a handbook about music in comedy cinema, co-edited with Emile  Wennekes. www.emilioaudissino.eu 

Marie Bennett

Marie Josephine Bennett received her PhD from the University of Winchester in November 2021. Her main areas of interest are: the Hollywood musical; music in film; popular music of the 1960s-1980s; the Eurovision Song Contest; and Freddie Mercury/Queen. She has published widely, including in relation to the pop group, Queen. Marie is a member of the LGBTQ+ Music Study group committee and has been involved in various activities initiated by the group, including participating in a podcast and organising symposia. 

David Ireland

David Ireland is Associate Professor in Film Music Studies and Music Psychology at the University of Leeds. His research addresses the role of music in the perception of meaning in, and emotional response to, media. David is particularly interested in incongruent music, which displays a lack of shared properties with the images and narrative, and the ways in which inter- and multidisciplinary approaches can help understand such moments. He is the author of Identifying and Interpreting Incongruent Film Music (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), and has published articles on the topic in journals including Music and the Moving Image and The Soundtrack. David has also recently been working on chapters concerning how incongruent music nuances representation and response in dark comedy film, and the construction of antiheroes in contemporary peak TV series. 

Jacques Dupuis

Jacques Dupuis is a visiting assistant professor of musicology and music theory at Purdue University Fort Wayne in Indiana, USA. He earned his PhD in musicology from Brandeis University in 2021, writing on transmissions of 19th century popular theater into domestic music making contexts. He has presented internationally on 19th century German music, American opera, gender in classical radio programming and other topics. He has most recently published work with Oxford University Press on the operas of American composer Samuel Barber.

Ben Winters

Ben Winters is a Senior Lecturer in Music at The Open University (UK). He is the author of several books on film music, a co-editor of the journal Music, Sound, and the Moving Image, and co-edits the Ashgate Screen Music Series of books for Taylor and Francis. He is currently writing a monograph for Oxford University Press entitled Korngold in America: Music, Modernity, and Hollywood. 

Miaotong Yuan

Associate Professor, sound engineer, School of Music and Recording Arts, Faculty of  Arts, Communication University of China. 

Research field: Sound Studies, Media Studies, Media Technology History

Matt Lawson

Dr Matt Lawson is a musicologist and Senior Lecturer in Music at Oxford Brookes University, UK, where  he has worked since 2017. Primarily a film and television music specialist, Mat completed his Ph.D. at  Edge Hill University, with a thesis focussing on the music used in German depictions of the Holocaust  on screen. He is co-author of the general-interest book, 100 Greatest Film Scores (Rowman and  Littlefield, 2018), and is currently writing his second book, The Music of Middle-Earth on Screen (Cambridge University Press).

Hunter Wallace

Hunter Wallace is a first year master’s Theory/Composition student at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where he also earned his bachelor’s degree in Music Theory/Composition in Spring of 2022. His primary instrument is euphonium, which he plays in the university’s wind ensemble, but he plays trombone in the university’s symphony orchestra, as well as in the jazz ensemble. In his undergraduate degree, he took composition lessons from Dr. Quincy Hilliard, composer in residence, and continues to study with Dr. Welsey Bradford, Coordinator of Music Theory. His research focuses on the role of film music and its role in enhancing storytelling through on-screen media, particularly through textural layering and the role of timbre choices by the composer which combine in telling a cinematic story.

Daniel White

Dan White is Senior Lecturer of Musicology at the University of Huddersfield, where he teaches on film music, popular music studies, fandom and identity, research skills and performance. His doctoral research focused on the music of fantasy film franchises and their multimedia access points, and his book on Fantasy Film Music will be published in 2023 as part of the Ashgate Screen Music series. He has also published widely on different aspects of this research, including an article in Music, Sound and the Moving Image on the opening sequences of the Lord of the Rings films and another in InMedia on music at Harry Potter tourist attractions, as well as a chapter on the music of the Jurassic Park franchise to be published in the Bloomsbury Jurassic Park Book (ed. Melia), and a forthcoming chapter on Rings of Power in a companion on Scoring Peak TV (eds. Halfyard & Reyland).

Emin Bülbül

Ahmet Emin Bülbül, PhD, is an independent researcher and a part-time lecturer. Inspired by Siegfried  Kracauer’s materialism and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s existential phenomenology, his first monograph, The  Sense of the Image: Phenomenology and The New Cinema of Turkey, is published by Doruk Publishing  House in 2022. His last article, “Textures of Ecology: A Flat Ontology of Things in Zachary Epcar’s Return to  Forms” will be out with the upcoming issue of Short Film Studies Journal (Scopus). https://sites.google.com/view/aeminbulbul/home 

Paul Greene

Paul Greene is a Principal Lecturer in the Hebei University/University of Central Lancashire School of  Media, Communication and Creative Industries, Baoding, China.  His work as a composer, producer and performer has included projects across musical genres whose  recorded output has been made available in the UK, Europe and the United States. More recently his  work has included sound installation and computer based composition for fixed media playback. He  holds a Masters Degree in Music Composition from the University of Huddersfield and he is currently studying for a PhD in musical composition at Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland focussing on  Spaces, Places and Communities.

Sanna Qvick

MA Sanna Qvick is finishing her PhD dissertation in musicology at the University of Turku (Finland).  Her doctoral thesis Captivating film sounds: Sonic narration and world-making in the soundtracks of Finnish fairy tale films focuses on narrative role of the soundtrack while highlighting the  immersion powers of music, sounds, voice and effects. The material of Qvick’s research consists of  a selection of six fairy tale films. Her methodology rests on close reading, narratology, audio-visual and music analysis. The main part of her work has been funded by Finnish Cultural Foundation. 

Qvick has published articles both in Finnish and English, for example a joint article with John Richardson and Anna-Elena Pääkkölä in The Oxford Handbook of Cinematic Listening (2021). She  has also been a board member of The Finnish Musicological Society (2013–2016).