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Dr. James Denis Mc Glynn

Research Fellow (Film Studies)
      
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Dr. James Denis Mc Glynn

Research Fellow (Film Studies)

 JAMES.MCGLYNN@tcd.ie

 


James Denis Mc Glynn is a scholar of music and sound in film, television, and a variety of digital media contexts. His specialist interests include the rearrangement of pre-existing music, film/TV adaptations, video game music, and algorithmic culture. He is currently a Research Fellow in Screen Studies at Trinity College Dublin, where he is part of the Irish Research Council Laureate Award project (2022-2026) "From Cinematic Realism to Extended Reality" led by Dr. Jennifer O'Meara. His doctoral thesis, completed in 2020, explores the rearrangement of pre-existing music in recent film and television scores. His recent research outputs include publications in The Journal of Popular Music Studies, Music and the Moving Image, The Journal of Sound and Music in Games, and the anthology After Midnight: Watchmen After Watchmen. His forthcoming publications include chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Music and Television and The Oxford Handbook of Music, Sound and Trauma Studies.
  Film Music   film sound, dialogue, music   Film Studies   Media Arts   Television
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Society for Musicology in Ireland (SMI): National Council member and Hon. Membership Secretary (2022 - present) 2020 present
Society For Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) 2021 2022
Society for the Study of Sound and Music in Games (SSSMG) 2023 present
American Musicological Society (AMS) 2021 present
Sonic Scope: New Approaches to Audiovisual Culture - Editorial board member 2020 present
Émergence·s (journal) - Editorial Board member 2023 present
"Scoring Trauma: Musically Representing Repressed Trauma in 21st -Century Television Dramas" in, editor(s)Erin Brooks, Michelle Meinhart and Jillan Rogers , The Oxford Handbook of Music, Sound, and Trauma Studies, New York, Oxford University Press (forthcoming), 2026, [James Denis Mc Glynn], Book Chapter, ACCEPTED
"Cantor Mortis: Singing Bodies, Pre-existing Music, Death and Life in Swiss Army Man (2016)" in, editor(s)Kate Galloway, Katherine Reed and Reba Wissner , Adaptation, Rearrangement, and Music Across Screen Media, New York, Routledge (forthcoming), 2025, [James Denis Mc Glynn], Book Chapter, ACCEPTED
"Scoring TV Adaptations: From the Silver Screen to the Small Screen" in, editor(s)James Deaville, Ronald Rodman and Jessica Getman , The Oxford Handbook of Music in Television, Oxford, Oxford University Press (forthcoming), 2025, [James Denis Mc Glynn], Book Chapter, ACCEPTED
"The Adaptation of Akira Yamaoka's music from the Silent Hill series (1999-2004) in Christophe Gans' Silent Hilll (2006)" in, editor(s)Richard Anatone and Andrew S. Powell , Remedial Storytelling: The Convergence and Divergence of Music in Video Games and Film, New York, Routledge (forthcoming), 2025, [James Denis Mc Glynn], Book Chapter, ACCEPTED
James Denis Mc Glynn, "Scoring Synthetic Media: Library Music in the Viral 'A.I. Film' Trend", Emerging Media: Technology, Industry and Society, 2025, Journal Article, ACCEPTED
James Denis Mc Glynn, "The 'Cinematic Promise' of Video Game Music: Stylistic Convergence, Current-Generation Remakes and the Case of Final Fantasy VII", Journal of Sound and Music in Games, 4, (4), 2023, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Stefan Greenfield-Casas and James Denis Mc Glynn, "'We are what they grow beyond': Visions (and Sounds) of a Transnational Star Wars", 2023, -, Miscellaneous, ACCEPTED  URL
"The Adaptation of Narrative and Musical Source Material in HBO's Watchmen" in, editor(s)Drew Morton , After Midnight: Watchmen after Watchmen, Jackson, MS, University Press of Mississippi, 2022, pp199 - 215, [James Denis Mc Glynn], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
James Denis Mc Glynn, "Revisiting Vangelis: Sonic Citation and Narration in the Score for Blade Runner 2049 (2017)", Sonic Scope: New Approaches to Audiovisual Culture, 2020, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
  

James Denis Mc Glynn, "Posthuman Soundtracks: Screen Scoring and Popular Music in the Age of Synthetic Media", Senior Common Room Research Salon Talk Series, Trinity College Dublin, 17 April, 2025, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
James Denis Mc Glynn, "Theorising Music and Sound in Aleatoric Filmmaking: The Case of Eno (dir. Hustwit 2024)", Music and the Moving Image XXI, NYU Steinhardt, 30 May, 2025, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
James Denis Mc Glynn, "Music and Sound in Algorithmic Filmmaking", Annual Plenary Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, University College Dublin, 21 June, 2025, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
James Denis Mc Glynn, "Democratising Screen Music Studies through Videographic Criticism", Presentational Technologies in Music and Screen Media Research and Pedagogy, Music and Media Study Group, Virtual Symposium, 7 Aug, 2025, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
James Denis Mc Glynn, "Screen Music, Sound, and the 'Dominant Imaginary' of A.I. in Filmmaking", Music and the Moving Image XX, NYU Steinhardt, 28 May, 2024, Conference Paper, ACCEPTED
James Denis Mc Glynn, "The Sound of 'A.I. Films': Considerations of Style, Authorship and Erasure of Labour in a Recent Online Trend", Storytellers + Machines 2024, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, 4 July, 2024, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
James Denis Mc Glynn, "A.I. and Screen Music: Popular (Mis)perceptions, Ethical Ramifications, and Obfuscation of Labour in a Recent Online Trend", Sociotechnical Consequences of A.I. Interdisciplinary Workshop, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 13 September, 2024, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
James Denis Mc Glynn, "New Interactions Between Popular Music and the Moving Image in the Age of Synthetic Media", Posthuman Pop: Technology, Nature, Bodies, and Popular Music, Boston University, Massachusetts, USA, 5 October, 2024, Conference Paper, ACCEPTED
James Denis Mc Glynn, "Postgraduate Publishing (Without Perishing): Realistic Options for Scholarly Contributions and Collaborations while Dissertating", 17th Annual SMI / ICTM-IE Postgraduate Conference, Maynooth University, 13 January, 2024, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
James Denis Mc Glynn, "Transnational Collaboration in Contemporary Screen Scoring: Hopeful Examples from Recent Animated and Interactive Media", DCU Department of Music Seminar Series 2023-24, Dublin City University, 6 February, 2024, Invited Talk, ACCEPTED

  


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Award Date
Excellence Scholarship (PhD), CACSSS, University College Cork 2017-20
Rev. Liam Swords Foundation Bursary 2018, Centre Culturel Irlandais (Paris, FR) 2018
1st Prize, 11th CHMHE/ICTM Undergraduate Musicology Competition 2018
Staf Gebruers Memorial Prize 2017 2017
The Mary V. Hart Memorial Prize in Music 2017
Global Undergraduate Awards, Highly Commended 2016
UCC College Scholar award (highest score in degree year) 2016
Quercus Creative & Performing Arts Scholarship 2015-17
UCC College Scholar award 2015
National University of Ireland (NUI) Award 2014
UCC College Scholar award 2014