scholarship
Publications
BOOK CHAPTERS
“Equating the adaptation of narrative and musical source material in Damon Lindelof’s Watchmen (2019).”
In After Midnight: Analysing the Post-Watchmen Sequels, edited by Drew Morton. Foreword by Henry Jenkins. Mississippi: University of Mississippi Press, Forthcoming 2021.
“Crisis? What Crisis?: Film Music Studies and Interdisciplinarity in Musicology.” In Young Musicology Belgrade,
edited by Maja Radivojević et al. Belgrade: Institute of Musicology of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2021.
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
“Revisiting Vangelis: Sonic Citation and Narration in the score for Blade Runner 2049 (2017).” Sonic Scope:
New Approaches To Audiovisual Culture 1, no. 1 (2020).
“Roving Textualities: the Mobile Ringtone, Intersemiosis and Transmedia.” Sonic Scope: New Approaches To
Audiovisual Culture 1, no. 1 (2020).
PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP
“Daft Punk’s Farewell: a Fitting Conclusion to their Reign as Composers, Producers and Filmmakers.” In RTÉ
Brainstorm, edited by Jim Carroll. Dublin: Raidió Teilifís Éireann – Ireland’s National Public Service Media, 2021.
“‘Blue skies and golden sunshine’: David Lynch's lockdown weather reports.” In RTÉ Brainstorm, edited by Jim
Carroll. Dublin: Raidió Teilifís Éireann – Ireland’s National Public Service Media, 2021.
CURENTLY UNDER REVIEW
“Rearrangement and Music Editing as Compositional Devices in Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby (2013).”
Music and the Moving Image (currently being revised following initial editorial review)
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Service to the Field
Editorial Board member
Sonic Scope: New Approaches to Audiovisual Culture (MIT Press / Goldsmiths, University of London)
Invited Peer-reviewer
[in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies (JCMS)
Conference Presentations and Invited Lectures
Mc Glynn, James. “Rearrangement and ‘Composite’ Scoring in the films of Baz Luhrmann.” [Oral
Presentation], The 16th Annual Irish Screen Studies Seminar, Ulster University, Magee Campus, Derry, Ireland. 5-6 May 2021 (held remotely due to COVID-19).
Mc Glynn, James. “‘Never Gonna Dance Again’: Transformations of Pre-existing Music and the
Communication of Trauma in Watchmen (2019).” [Oral Presentation], Music and the Moving Image XVII, NYU Steinhardt, New York, 27-30 May 2021. (held remotely due to COVID-19).
Mc Glynn, James. “‘I am no longer afraid’: a Case Study on the Musical Communication of Trauma in
Narrative Film and Television.” [Oral Presentation], Music, Sound, and Trauma: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Indiana University Bloomington. 12-14 February 2021 (held remotely due to COVID-19).
Mc Glynn, James. “Crisis? What Crisis?: Film Music Studies as a Hopeful Paradigm of Interdisciplinarity
in Musicology.”[Oral Presentation], Young Musicology Belgrade 2020, Institute of Musicology, Serbian Academy of Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia, 26 September 2020 (held remotely due to COVID-19).
Mc Glynn, James. “Rearrangement of Pre-existing Music in the Film Score: Narratological Possibilities,
Deliberate Ambiguities and Questions of ‘Originality’”. [Oral Presentation], 12th Meeting of the Music and Media (MaM) Study Group: Pre-existing music in screen-media: Problems, questions, challenges, IMS, Cleveland OH, 5-6 June 2020 (postponed due to COVID-19).
Mc Glynn, James. “Carraway, Kanye and 'Dubious Descendants of Beethoven': narrative functions of
rearrangement in Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby (2013)”. [Oral Presentation], Music and the Moving Image XVI, NYU Steinhardt, New York, May 29 – 31 2019.
Mc Glynn, James. “(Re)arranged Marriages: Industry Demands, Citation and Narration in Blade Runner
2049 (2017)”. [Oral Presentation], Music and the Moving Image XV, NYU Steinhardt, New York, 31 May – 2 Jun 2019.
Mc Glynn, James. “A Murder Weapon In Plain Sight: Manipulating Cinematic Conventions, Duplicitous
Narration and Asynchronous Sound”. [Oral Presentation], The 15th Annual Irish Screen Studies Seminar, NUIG, Galway, 9th May 2019.
Mc Glynn, James. “The Transient Film Score: Audience Subjectivities, Sonic Storytelling and Cultivating
Imagined Worlds”. [Oral Presentation], The 5th Annual Rev. Liam Swords Foundation Lecture, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 6th February 2019.
Mc Glynn, James. "Rearrangement and Narration in the Film Score: Pre-existing musical content,
narrative communication and examples from the Blade Runner series". [Oral Presentation], Fuaim lecture series, Department of Music, University College Cork, 17th January 2019.
Mc Glynn, James. “Transient Composing - Subjectivities and Sonic Storytelling in the Film Score”. [Oral
Presentation], The 5th Annual Rev. Liam Swords Foundation Lecture, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris 5, 19 November 2018.
Mc Glynn, James. “Scoring Realities: Sonically Conveying Narrative, Temporality and Characterisation
in HBO's Westworld (2016)”. [Invited Oral Presentation], Society For Musicology in Ireland 11th Annual Postgraduate Conference, Maynooth University, 19-20 January 2018.
Mc Glynn, James. “Scoring Realities: Sonically Conveying Narrative, Temporality and Characterisation
in HBO's Westworld (2016)”. [Oral Presentation], Identity (Re)construction: The CACSSS Annual Aigne Postgraduate Conference, University College Cork. 11 December 2017.
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Scholarships
Recipient of the CACSSS PhD Excellence Scholarship, University College Cork
Scholarships are competitively awarded by UCC’s College of Arts Celtic Studies and Social Sciences to students demonstrating exceptional promise for research in the humanities
Former Recipient of Quercus Creative & Performing Arts Scholarship, University College Cork
Scholars are recognised for demonstrating an exceptional level of excellence, academically and in their chosen art form, and are selected by an extensive multidisciplinary panel.
Oct 2017 - Dec 2020
Jun 2015 - May 2017
Research Awards
Postgraduate Research Travel Bursary, 2019
Stipend, enabling travel and presentation of scholarship at the 2019 Music and the Moving Image conference at NYU Steinhardt, New York
Rev. Liam Swords Foundation Bursary 2018
Invited to spend three months as resident researcher at the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris, conducting archival research and studying under the influential film sound scholar Michel Chion
11th Annual Undergraduate Musicology Competition, CHMHE / SMI
Invited to present at the SMI Postgraduate Conference 2018, having been awarded 1st Prize in the 11th Annual CHMHE Undergraduate Musicology Competition
Staf Gebruers Memorial Prize 2017, University College Cork
Awarded the coveted annual award and bursary as displaying exceptional promise for postgraduate studies in the UCC Department of Music
The Mary V. Hart Memorial Prize in Music, University College Cork
Awarded title and prize for obtaining first place at the BMus (Hons) Degree Examination.
Undergraduate Award - Highly Commended, Undergraduate Awards 2016
Internationally recognized amid 243 participating universities for paper "Evocations of the Occult: Folk Music's role in creating Tension and Unease in The Wicker Man (1973)"
UCC Works Recipient, University College Cork
Awarded as part of the Student Life strand of the UCC Works Award, for contribution to UCC student societies
UCC College Scholar 2016, CACSSS University College Cork
Awarded bursary as highest scoring student in degree programme
UCC College Scholar 2015, CACSSS University College Cork
(As above)
UCC College Scholar 2014, CACSSS University College Cork
(As above)
NUI Award 2014, National University of Ireland
Among the three highest scoring English students in Ireland across four NUI universities, commended as part of the Henry Hutchinson Stewart literary scholarship
Jan 2019
April 2018
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