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Dr Ben Winters

Publications

Books

Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s The Adventures of Robin Hood: A Film Score Guide (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007), 185pp.

Music, Performance, and the Realities of Film: Shared Concert Experiences in Screen Fiction (forthcoming, Routledge)

Articles

“Catching Dreams: Editing Film Scores for Publication,” Journal of the Royal Musical Association Vol. 132, No. 1 (September 2007): 115–140.

“Corporeality, Musical Heartbeats, and Cinematic Emotion,” Music, Sound, and the Moving Image Vol. 2, No. 1 (Spring 2008): 3–26

“Between Marie and Marietta? Korngold, Opera and Film” (Royal Opera House programme book for UK premiere of Die tote Stadt, 2009): 31–34

“‘There Have Been Developments’: Frankenstein’s Monster finds a (Mahlerian) Voice,” Interdisciplinary Humanities Vol. 26, No. 2 (Fall 2009): 116-127

“Screen Music Sources in the UK and Ireland,” (with Miguel Mera) Brio Vol. 46, No. 4 (Autumn/Winter 2009): 37-65

“The Non-diegetic Fallacy: Film, Music, and Narrative Space,” Music & Letters Vol. 91, No. 2 (May 2010): 224-244

“Strangling Blondes: Nineteenth-Century Femininity and Korngold’s Die tote Stadt,” Cambridge Opera Journal Vol. 23 No. 1-2 (March-July, 2011): 51-82

Guest editor Music Sound and the Moving Image ‘Music and Narrative in Film’ Vol. 6 No. 1 (Spring 2012):
“Music and Narrative: An Introduction” (3-8)
“Musical Wallpaper? Towards an Appreciation of Non-narrating Music in Film” (39-54)

Chapters

“Silencing the Truth: Music and Identity in The Unforgiven (1960)” in Music in the Western: Notes from the Frontier ed. Kathryn Kalinak (Routledge, 2011)

 “Superman as Mythic Narrative: Music, Romanticism, and the ‘Oneiric Climate’” in Magic, Myth and Monsters: Music, Sound and Fantasy Cinema ed. Janet K. Halfyard (Equinox Press, 2012)

“‘It’s all really happening’: Sonic Shaping in the films of Wes Anderson” in Music, Sound, and Filmmakers: Sonic Style in Cinema ed. James Wierzbicki (Routledge, 2012)

“Swearing an Oath: Korngold, Film, and the Sound of Resistance?” in ExilArte Year Book Issue 1 ed. Erik Levi (Böhlau Verlag, 2012)

“The Sound of Satire; or, Trading Places with Mozart” in Sounding Funny: Music, Sound and Comedy Cinema ed. Mark Evans (In press, Equinox Press, Oct 2012)

 

Reviews

Review of David Cooper, Christopher Fox, Ian Sapiro (eds.), CineMusic? Constructing the Film Score in Music, Sound, and the Moving Image Vol. 4 No. 1 (June 2010): 109-115

Review of Victoria Piel, Knut Holtsträter, Oliver Huck (eds.), Filmmusik: Beiträge zu ihrer Theorie und Vermittlung in Music & Letters Vol. 91 No. 3 (2010): 462-465

Review of Mervyn Cooke (ed.), The Hollywood Film Music Reader forthcoming in Studies in Musical Theatre Vol. 5 No. 2

Internet

Article on exile composers for Music and the Holocaust (http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/)

Selected Conference Papers

June 2012
“Rehearing Classical Hollywood: Concert Scenes and the Self-Referential Score,” IMS Music and Media Study Group, University of Turin

March 2012
“Moments of Desperation and Peril: Hollywood and Concert Performance.” Goldsmiths Graduate Forum, University of London

Dec 2011
“Viewed from the Podium: Concert Scenes and Film Narrative.” John Bird Seminar, Cardiff University School of Music

Oct 2011
“Viewed from the Podium: Concert Scenes and Film Narrative.” Oxford University Faculty of Music Research Seminar

Sept 2011
“Punching the Clock: Korngold on the Scoring Stage.” Film Music Conference, University of Leeds

July 2011
“Strangling Blondes: Hitchcock, 19th-century Femininity, and the staging of Korngold’s Die tote Stadt.” RMA conference, University of Sussex

June 2011
“Musical Wallpaper? Towards an Appreciation of Non-narrating Music in Film.” Film Music and Narrative Study Day, University of Edinburgh

Oct 2010
“Moments of Desperation and Peril: Hollywood and Concert Performance.” Nottingham University Colloquium

Feb 2010
“Reel Performers: the Concert on Screen”
Bangor University Seminar

Nov 2009
“Screen Music Sources in the UK and Ireland” (with Miguel Mera). Film Music Conference, University of Leeds

Nov 2009
“Reel Performers: the Concert on Screen.” Directions in Musical Research Seminar, Institute of Musial Research

July 2009
“When (narrative) worlds collide: theorising musical performance in fiction film.” ICMSN 2009, Keele University

Feb 2009
“Screen Music Sources in the UK and Ireland” (with Miguel Mera). ‘Musicological Film Studies: Sources, Bibliography, and Editions’ International Conference, University of Southern California

Dec 2008
“Korngold, Robin Hood, and the Sound of Viennese Nostalgia.” British Library ‘Studies in Recorded Music’ seminar

June 2008
“Ken Russell’s Mahler: Re-conceptualising the Mahlerian Text.” 15th Biennial Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, University College, Dublin

April 2008
“Swearing an Oath: Korngold, Film, and the Sound of Resistance.” ‘Music, Oppression and Exile: The Impact of Nazism on Musical Developments in the 20th Century’ International Conference, Institute of Musical Research

April 2008
“Korngold, the Symphony in F Sharp, and the Romantic Myth of Rejection.” Colloquium paper at University of Hull, Department of Drama and Music

Feb 2008
“‘There have been developments:’ Frankenstein’s Monster finds a (Mahlerian) Voice.” Colloquium paper at City University, London

Sep 2007
“No-Thing to Fear: Corporeality, Musical Heartbeats, and Cinematic Emotion.” ‘Sound, Music and the Moving Image’ International Conference, IMR, London

July 2007
“‘There have been developments:’ Frankenstein’s Monster finds a (Mahlerian) Voice.” International Musicological Society 18th Congress, Zurich

Jan 2004
Oxford Faculty of Music Colloquium: “The ‘unworkable’ stuff that dreams are made of: Korngold, Warner Bros. and Robin Hood”

See also Open Research Online for further details of Ben Winters’ research publications.

 

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The Adventures of Robin Hood: Film Score Guide - book cover


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Music in the Western - cover


Cambridge Opera Journal - cover


Music, Sound and Filmmakers: Sonic Style in Cinema - cover
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