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Annette Davison first
studied Music at City University, then spent a year at Exeter
University focusing on twentieth century music and aesthetics
(MA, Historical Musicology). She studied for her PhD on film
music theory and analysis at the University of Sheffield.
Annette’s first full time post was as a lecturer of
media and cultural Studies, at University College, Warrington.
This was followed by four years as a lecturer in music at
the University of Leeds where she gained a PGCLTHE (Post-Graduate
Certification in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education)
and was also programme manager of the MA in Film Music Studies.
She joined the University of Edinburgh in September 2004.
In 2004 she published
a revised version of her PhD as a monograph, Hollywood Theory,
Non-Hollywood Practice: Cinema Soundtracks in the 1980s and
1990s and co-edited (with Erica Sheen) a collection of essays
on the work of the director, David Lynch -- American Dreams,
Nightmare Visions: the cinema of David Lynch. She has published
articles in Music Analysis, Indiana Theory Review, and Music,
Sound and the Moving Image, and has contributed essays to
the Cambridge Companion to Film Music (forthcoming, 2009),
the Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen (2007) and
to Resounding International Relations: On Music, Culture and
Politics (2005).
Most recently, Annette completed a monograph on Alex North's
score for the Elia Kazan film adaptation of Tennessee Williams'
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), which is to be published
in early 2009. She is currently researching the role of music
in theatrical productions of Streetcar and is starting a project
investigating the role and music and sound in the exhibition
of early cinema in Scotland. She is also working on essays
on the use of popular music in the films of Wong Kar-Wai,
and music in Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho and Mary Harron's
film adaptation (2000).
She is on the editorial boards of the journals Twentieth-Century
Music and Music, Sound and the Moving Image, and reviews articles
and book proposals for various journals and publishers.
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