Contributors to Issue 14:1
- Contributors to Issue 14:1
Alexis Bennett is Associate Lecturer in Music at Goldsmiths, University of London and a visiting supervisor at the University of Cambridge. His doctoral thesis explored British film music in the 1930s. As a composer he works with filmmakers, poets, and animators, and he has performed widely as a folk musician and early music specialist.
Lex@alexisbennett.co.uk
www.alexisbennett.co.uk
Thomas Brami is a PhD candidate in film studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests include Australian film, historical representation, film style, and postcolonial studies.
tmacpherson@wisc.edu
Max Dosser is a doctoral student in the Communication and Rhetoric program at the University of Pittsburgh. He completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Wake Forest University where he studied the role of narrators in true crime documentary series. His current research focuses on television theme songs and the musical construction of disability in popular culture.
mad382@pitt.edu
Júlia Durand is a member of the Center of Sociology and Musical Aesthetics (CESEM) at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, and takes part in the research activities of its Study group on Gender and Music (NEGEM), Group for Studies in Sociology of Music (SociMus) and Group for Advanced Studies in Music and Cyberculture (CysMus). In addition to several papers on music and audiovisuals presented at international conferences such as Music and the Moving Image, her research has been published as chapters in edited volumes (including Log In, Live On: Música e Cibercultura na era da Internet das coisas, 2018, and Música, Género, Sexualidades: Musical Trouble… After Butler, forthcoming), and in the journal Revista Portuguesa de Musicologia. Her current work focuses primarily on the production and use of library music.
juliahmc94@gmail.com
Thomas S. Hischak is Emeritus Professor of Performing Arts of the State University of New York College at Cortland and the author of over thirty books on film, music, and theatre, including The Oxford Companion to the American Musical, 1939: Hollywood’s Greatest Year, and Theatre as Human Action. He is also the author of over forty published plays and a Fulbright Scholar who has taught and directed in Greece, Lithuania, and Turkey. He currently teaches film and theatre at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida.
thischak@flagler.edu
www.thomashischak.com
Marco Ladd is a Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, having received his PhD in Music History from Yale University in 2019. He is currently working on a book about music in Italian silent cinema, examining the contrasting strategies developed to synchronise music with filmic images and their broader cultural significance. An article derived from this project is published in The Opera Quarterly.
mal55@cam.ac.uk
Nick Redfern has taught film at Manchester Metropolitan University, the University of Central Lancashire, and Leeds Trinity University, where he was programme leader for film from 2016 to 2020. He has published research on the quantitative analysis of film style in Post Script, the Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, the International Journal of Communication, the Journal of Data Science, and Empirical Studies in the Arts.
nickredfern@outlook.com
