Hosted by the Arnold Shaw Popular Music Research Center, Robynn Stilwell offers a lecture on music and the cinematic Western. Items to be discussed include Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) and The Native Americans (1994) and the songs of Sebastian Robertson in these productions.

About the speaker:
Robynn J. Stilwell is Associate Professor at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on the interaction of music and movement in film, video, television, dance, and sport. Publications include work on Beethoven and cinematic violence, musical form and drama in Jane Austen, psychoanalytic film theory and its implications for music and for female subjects, the boundaries between sound and music in the cinematic soundscape, whiteness and rockabilly, French film musicals, television sitcoms, and exoticism and sound design in The X-Files.