Project
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Funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Collaboration with De Montfort University.
Total award value £105,730.00
Professor Emeritus, Communications, Media and Culture
Article
When Squawkies Became Talkies: The Musicians' Union, Mechanical Music and British Cinemas, 1927-33
Izod J (2020) When Squawkies Became Talkies: The Musicians' Union, Mechanical Music and British Cinemas, 1927-33. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 17 (2), pp. 191-211. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2020.0519
Article
Empowering Cinema Operators in the USA and UK, 1927-1933
Izod J (2018) Empowering Cinema Operators in the USA and UK, 1927-1933. Music, Sound, and the Moving Image, 12 (2), pp. 217-240. https://doi.org/10.3828/msmi.2018.12
Article
Neely S (2018) Tantalising Fragments: Scotland’s Voice in the Early Talkies in Britain and Jenny Gilbertson’s The Rugged Island: A Shetland Lyric (1934). Music Sound and the Moving Image, 12 (2), pp. 171-195. https://doi.org/10.3828/msmi.2018.10
Conference Paper (unpublished)
The Partial Empowering of British Cinema Operators, 1927-33
Izod J (2017) The Partial Empowering of British Cinema Operators, 1927-33. British Silent Film Festival Symposium, Strand, London, 06.04.2017-07.04.2017. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/filmstudies/eventrecords/16-17/British-silent-film-festival-symposium-2017.aspx
Book Review
Izod J (2016) Katherine Spring, Saying it with Songs: Popular Music and the Coming of Sound to Hollywood Cinema and Michael Slowik, After the Silents: Hollywood Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 1926-1934. Review of: Saying it with Songs: popular music and the coming of sound to Hollywood cinema by Katherine Spring (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, 229 pages). ISBN 978-0199842223; and After the Silents: Hollywood film music in the early sound era, 1926-1934 by Michael Slowik (New York, NY: Columbia UP, 2014, 384 pages). ISBN 9780231165822. Screen, 57 (3), pp. 379-383. https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjw035
Conference Paper (unpublished)
Musicians’ Union Campaigns in the Late 1920s
Izod J (2016) Musicians’ Union Campaigns in the Late 1920s. Working in Music: The Musicians’ Union, musical labour and employment, Glasgow, 14.01.2016-15.01.2016. http://www.muhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/Working-in-Music-programme.pdf