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Liz Greene

Liz Greene studied sound design for film as an undergraduate at the National Film School, Dun Laoghaire (Ireland) in 2001. Since then she has worked as a boom operator in the Irish film and television industry. Her work on the television series Pure Mule won an Irish Film and Television Award (IFTA) for best sound in 2005. She studied for an MA in Film Studies at University College Dublin in 2003. She completed a Ph.D. at the University of Ulster in 2008. Her thesis was entitled 'Alan Splet and Sound Design: an archival study', which investigates the sound effects library Sound Mountain. In 2008-09 she worked as a Lecturer in Film and Television Production at York St John University, but took up a new post as Lecturer in Film Studies in September 2009 at Queen’s University Belfast.

She has published an article from her MA thesis in Film and Film Culture vol. 3 (2004), 'Ambiguity: Walter Murch and the metaphoric use of sound in The Godfather, The Conversation and Apocalypse Now'. Her research is concerned with the integration of theory and practice in film sound studies.  She has published two other articles on sound 'Designing Asynchronous Sound for Film' in National Cinemas and World Cinema: Studies in Irish Film 3 (2006), and another chapter 'The Woman Sings: sound design and meaning in Hollywood cinema' in Irish Films, Global Cinema: Studies in Irish Film 4 (2007).


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The Soundtrack
Principal Editor Benjamin Wright