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Michael Baumgartner
Michael Baumgartner teaches at Cleveland State University. His research focuses on music in relation to cinema, theatre and visual arts, music of the twentieth and twenty-first century and the exploration of the narrative capacity of music. He is the author of the monographs Metafilm Music in Jean-Luc Godard’s Cinema (Oxford University Press, 2022) and Exilierte Göttinnen: Frauenstatuen im Bühnenwerk von Kurt Weill, Thea Musgrave und Othmar Schoeck (Olms Verlag, 2012). Together with Ewelina Boczkowska, he is also the co-editor of the three anthologies Music, Collective Memory, Trauma, and Nostalgia in European Cinema after the Second World War; Music, Ideology, Commerce, and Popular Cinema in Europe: 1940s to 1980s; and Music, Authorship, Narration, and Art Cinema in Europe: 1940s to 1980s (all Routledge, 2020–23).