Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Explain and evaluate important theoretical concepts related to music, sound, and the moving image.
- Interrogate specific examples using the technical terminology of film music studies.
- Describe different music and the moving image practices and aesthetics in relation to aspects of Irish culture and issues of national identity.
- Discuss key aesthetic trends, practices, and examples of media music from different periods and genres of film and television programme, made in Ireland or representing Ireland.
- Recognise the contribution of a range of film music composers and musically-minded directors in the representation of Ireland onscreen.
Having completed the course, students will also have improved their skills in reading analytical texts, appraising scholarly views, offering synthetic readings of scholarly disagreements, conducting academic research, and communicating their findings to others (both in the form of essays and presentations).
Indicative Module Content:
Week 1: Silent film music practices with reference to Ireland and early sound film
Week 2: Classic Hollywood, Ireland, and Irish-American Connections
Week 3: Romanticising, Mythologising, Politicising Irishness
Week 4: Presentations
Week 5: Recent Developments
Week 6: Music and Sound for Documentary Film