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Dr. James Denis Mc Glynn

Research Fellow (Film Studies)

 JAMES.MCGLYNN@tcd.ie

 3531896 1440


Biography

James Denis Mc Glynn is a scholar of music and sound in screen media, with specialist interests in film music, rearrangement, film/TV adaptations, and video game music. 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. He is currently completing invited contributions for several forthcoming publications, including The Oxford Handbook of Music and Television.

Research Tags

  Film Music   film sound, dialogue, music   Film Studies   Media Arts   Television

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
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
"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
"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), 2024, [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), 2024, [James Denis Mc Glynn], Book Chapter, 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, "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, 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, 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, PUBLISHED
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
James Denis Mc Glynn, "Return to the Forgotten Forest: Collaborative Scoring Practices and Shaping the Fictional Geography of Kena: Bridge of Spirits (2021)", 89th Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Denver, Colorado, 9 November, 2023, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
James Denis Mc Glynn, "Radiohead's Impossible Museum: Representing Abstract Musical Phenomena and Ephemeral Listening Experiences in KID A MNESIA EXHIBITION (2021)", 10th Annual North American Conference on Video Game Music, Stetson University, DeLand, Florida, 4 February, 2023, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
James Denis Mc Glynn, "Serialising Cinema: Music for Small-Screen Adaptations in the 'Peak TV' Era", Music for Stage and Screen: Celebrating SMI at 20, National Opera House, Wexford, 11 March, 2023, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
James Denis Mc Glynn, "Communicating Screen Music Research through Videographic Criticism", The 18th Annual Irish Screen Studies Seminar, Trinity College Dublin, 11 May, 2023, Conference Paper, PRESENTED

  

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Awards and Honours

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