Music, the Moving Image and Ireland, 1897–2017
- Author: O'Flynn, John
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Contents
- Introduction: Music, the moving image, and Ireland
- Conceiving the field
- A national cinema?
- Aims and methods
- Representing Ireland
- Musical tropes and their alternatives: a book of three parts
- Musical and ideological readings
- Part 1: Irish Themes on Screen and in Sound
- Chapter 1: The first half-century: From silent newsreel to narrative sound film
- The beginnings of Irish cinema
- Early Irish-themed sound film
- Max Steiner and Irish-themed film
- British and Irish film: the mid-to-late 1930s
- Irish-themed British film music: William Alwyn
- The luck of the Irish?
- Chapter 2: Harping on? The 1950s to the 1990s
- The early to mid-1950s
- Irish-produced and Irish-themed
- Fighters, writers and leprechauns
- Different directions in the 1970s
- Re-working sonic Irishness
- Chapter 3: Literature-to-film adaptations and music
- O'Casey and Synge
- Joyce, music and film
- New generations of writers
- Elmer Bernstein and adapted Irish screenplays
- End-of-century adaptations
- Part 2: Perception and Production from Within
- Chapter 4: Sounding nation and culture on screen
- Early perspectives on the independence struggle
- Anthropology and ideology
- Nation building
- Tourism, heritage and the natural world
- Commemoration
- Documenting tradition in a modern age
- Chapter 5: Soundtracks to Ireland's troubles: dramas and documentaries
- The long 19th century on TV
- The Northern Ireland Troubles in documentary film
- The mid-1990s: A new aesthetic for Troubles documentaries?
- Critical perspectives on the Republic: the 1960s
- Continuing themes of unemployment, emigration and diaspora
- Abuse, abjection and marginalization
- Millennial perspectives on Irish history
- Chapter 6: Irish Composers and 20th-century film and TV
- Mid-20th century composers
- Combining tradition and modernity?
- Experimental scoring: Brian Boydell
- Composing for TV: A.J. Potter
- From newsreel to feature film: Gerard Victory
- The late 20th century: Seoirse Bodley, John Buckley and Roger Doyle
- Part 3: Cinematic and Musical Developments
- Chapter 7: Soundtracks for an emerging Irish cinema: Margins, borders, troubles
- On the margins: first wave Irish cinema
- Early narrative features on the Troubles
- Troubles films go mainstream
- South of the border: past troubles
- Chapter 8: A plurality of genres
- Documenting music on screen
- Traditional and folk soundtracks
- Traditional music and orchestral scores: Micheal O Suilleabhain, Bill Whelan and Shaun Davey
- From stage to soundtrack: music hall, dance bands and jazz
- Popular music: composition and compilation
- The Irish music-film
- Chapter 9: 21st-century themes
- Soundtracks, places, spaces
- Crime drama
- Past traumas
- Looking back at the Troubles
- Outsiders
- Beyond Ireland
- Conclusion: Retrospectives and recent developments
- Music, the moving image and Ireland: the first 120 years
- 21st-century documentary features
- Retrospectives and (re)-composition
- Developments in screen music production
- Glossary of Musical Terms
- Selected Filmography
- Bibliography