Contributors to Issue 7:2
- Contributors to Issue 7:2
Alexis Bennett is a doctoral research student and associate lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, where his focus is on British film music in the 1930s. He read music and literature at the University of Edinburgh before studying screen composition with Dario Marianelli at the RCM and performance at the Guildhall School. As a composer he works with filmmakers and animators, and he has performed widely with early music ensembles including The Dufay Collective and Florilegium, and various ceilidh bands in the London area.
lex@alexisbennett.co.uk
Lori Burns is Professor of Music at the University of Ottawa and Director of the School of Music. Her interdisciplinary research merges cultural theory and musical analysis to explore representations of gender in the lyrical, musical, and visual texts of popular music. She has published articles in edited collections published by Oxford, Garland, Routledge, and the University of Michigan Press, as well as in leading journals (Popular Music, Popular Music and Society, The Journal for Music, Sound, and Moving Image, Studies in Music, Music Theory Spectrum, Music Theory Online and The Journal for Music Theory). Along with co-researcher Marc Lafrance, Burns is the recipient of an Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2013-18): 'Constructing Genre in Narrative Music Videos: Intersecting Identities of Gender, Sexuality, Race, Class, Age and Ability in Word, Music, and Image.'
laburns@uottawa.ca
Orlene Denice McMahon is a musicologist specialised in film and media music. She received her doctorate from the University of Cambridge and is now teaching as an Associate Lecturer in Musicology at Paris-Sorbonne University. Her first book Listening to the French New Wave: The Film and Composers of Postwar French Art Cinema will be published by Peter Lang Oxford in 2014.
orlene.mcmahon@cantab.net
Amanda McQueen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Film Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she also received her M.A. She is currently working on her dissertation, an industrial history of the Hollywood musical from 1955 to 1975, and her other areas of interest include questions of genre and adaptation, Classical Hollywood Cinema, and the musical genre on television. She also serves on the editorial board of The Velvet Light Trap and has recently been assisting on a National Endowment for the Humanities grant project that seeks to better understand the decomposition of cellulose nitrate film stock.
macsuane@me.com
Miguel Mera is a composer of music for the moving image and has also published widely in music and moving image studies. He is interested in the combination of theory and practice within the context of contemporary culture and the creative industries. He is the author of Mychael Danna´s The Ice Storm: A Film Score Guide and co-editor of European Film Music. Miguel is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Music at City University London.
Miguel.Mera.1@city.ac.uk [End Page 219]
Lucy M. Rees gained a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of Leeds in 2012. She wrote her thesis on the Soviet influence on Mongolian film music and she is currently preparing her book on the same topic entitled `Mongolian Film Music: Tradition, Revolution and Propaganda in the Twentieth Century´. She works as an independent researcher and is currently under contract with a Welsh Government agency, for which she has written several research papers, although ethnomusicology and film music remain her greatest passions.
lumirees@gmail.com
Hannah Ueno received a MFA in Visual Communications from Washington State University, and a BFA in Visual Communications from Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan. Hannah has worked as a graphic designer in Tokyo, San Francisco, and Pullman, Washington. She teaches typography, digital imaging, 3D computer graphics, interactive media courses at Stockton College in New Jersey. Her work has been included in group exhibitions, corporate and private collections.
hannahu@comcast.net
Carol Vernallis's research deals broadly with questions of music, image and text in contemporary moving media. Her first book, Experiencing Music Video (Columbia University Press, 2004), attempts to theorise an aesthetics of the genre. Her second book, Unruly Media: YouTube, Music Video, and the New Digital Cinema...
