John O'Flynn

Music, the Moving Image and Ireland, 1897-2017

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Produktbeschreibung

Music, the Moving Image and Ireland, 1897-2017 constitutes the first comprehensive study of music for screen productions from or relating to the island.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9781032191355
• ISBN-10: 103219135X
• Artikelnr.: 68715454

Autorenporträt

John O'Flynn is Associate Professor of Music at Dublin City University. He is author of The Irishness of Irish Music (2009) and co-editor of several books, including Music and Identity in Ireland and Beyond (2014) and Made in Ireland: Studies in Popular Music (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Music, the moving image, and Ireland
Conceiving the field
A national cinema?
Aims and methods
Representing Ireland
Musical tropes and their alternatives: a book of three parts
Musical and ideological readings
Part 1: Irish Themes on Screen and in Sound
Chapter 1: The first half-century: From silent newsreel to narrative sound
film
The beginnings of Irish cinema
Early Irish-themed sound film
Max Steiner and Irish-themed film
British and Irish film: the mid-to-late 1930s
Irish-themed British film music: William Alwyn
The luck of the Irish?
Chapter 2: Harping on? The 1950s to the 1990s
The early to mid-1950s
Irish-produced and Irish-themed
Fighters, writers and leprechauns
Different directions in the 1970s
Re-working sonic Irishness
Chapter 3: Literature-to-film adaptations and music
O'Casey and Synge
Joyce, music and film
New generations of writers
Elmer Bernstein and adapted Irish screenplays
End-of-century adaptations
Part 2: Perception and Production from Within
Chapter 4: Sounding nation and culture on screen
Early perspectives on the independence struggle
Anthropology and ideology
Nation building
Tourism, heritage and the natural world
Commemoration
Documenting tradition in a modern age
Chapter 5: Soundtracks to Ireland's troubles: dramas and documentaries
The long 19th century on TV
The Northern Ireland Troubles in documentary film
The mid-1990s: A new aesthetic for Troubles documentaries?
Critical perspectives on the Republic: the 1960s
Continuing themes of unemployment, emigration and diaspora
Abuse, abjection and marginalization
Millennial perspectives on Irish history
Chapter 6: Irish Composers and 20th-century film and TV
Mid-20th century composers
Combining tradition and modernity?
Experimental scoring: Brian Boydell
Composing for TV: A.J. Potter
From newsreel to feature film: Gerard Victory
The late 20th century: Seóirse Bodley, John Buckley and Roger Doyle
Part 3: Cinematic and Musical Developments
Chapter 7: Soundtracks for an emerging Irish cinema: Margins, borders,
troubles
On the margins: first wave Irish cinema
Early narrative features on the Troubles
Troubles films go mainstream
South of the border: past troubles
Chapter 8: A plurality of genres
Documenting music on screen
Traditional and folk soundtracks
Traditional music and orchestral scores: Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Bill
Whelan and Shaun Davey
From stage to soundtrack: music hall, dance bands and jazz
Popular music: composition and compilation
The Irish music-film
Chapter 9: 21st-century themes
Soundtracks, places, spaces
Crime drama
Past traumas
Looking back at the Troubles
Outsiders
Beyond Ireland
Conclusion: Retrospectives and recent developments
Music, the moving image and Ireland: the first 120 years
21st-century documentary features
Retrospectives and (re)-composition
Developments in screen music production
Glossary of Musical Terms
Selected Filmography
Bibliography