Cinema's illusions, opera's allure : the operatic impulse in film

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Cinema's illusions, opera's allure : the operatic impulse in film

David Schroeder

(Bloomsbury academic collections, . Film studies . world cinema)

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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"ISBN: Set: 9781474293136"--T.p. verso

Originally published: New York: Continuum, 2002

Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

The invention of cinema was ingenious, so much so that virtually no-one quite knew what to do with it. In its earliest stages, especially with the advent of the feature film, it needed models, and opera proved to be especially useful in that regard. The allure of opera to cinema early in the twentieth century held up through the silent era, into sound films, through the golden age of movies, and beyond. This book explores the numerous ways - some predictable, some unexpected, and some bizarre - in which this has happened. The influence of Richard Wagner on filmmakers has been especially striking, and some have even devised visual images that seem to emerge from a kind of non-verbal Wagnerian essence - a formative, musical urge that can underlie a cinematic idea, defying explanation and remaining purely sensory. Directors like Griffith, DeMille, Eisenstein, Chaplin, Bunuel or Hitchcock have intuited this possibility. Schroeder provides a fascinating, well-researched and always entertaining account of the influence of one medium on another, and shows that opera can often be found lurking in the background (or booming in the foreground) of an impressive range of films.

目次

Preface Introduction Part I - Appropriation of Opera in Early Cinema 1. Silent Opera: DeMille's Carmen 2. D. W. Griffith as a Wagnerian 3. Stage Fright: Phantom of the Opera 4. A Life at the Opera 5. Synesthesia: Alexander Nevsky as Opera Part II - The Film Score 6. The Leitmotif 7. Titles Music as Operatic Overture Part III - Cinema Gives Opera the Finger 8. Casting Opera in our Teeth: Chaplin's Carmen 9. Attack of the Anarchists: A Night at the Opera 10. Deflated and Flat: Opera in Citizen Kane 11. Bursting Out Into Opera: Fellini's E La Nave Va 12. The Charming Opera Snob in Hannah and Her Sisters Part IV - Wagner's Bastards 13. Misreading Wagner: the Politics of Lang's Siegfried 14. Cinema as Grand Opera: Politics, Religion and DeMille 15. Bombarding the Senses: Apocalypse Now 16. Wagnerian Images of Sound and Sensuality 17. Wagner's Ring Cycle for Adolescents: Star Wars 18. What's Opera, Doc? Part V - Cinema as Opera 19. Dizzying Illusion: Vertigo 20. Carmen Copies 21. Operastruck 22. Outing Opera in Philadelphia 23. Opera Obsession 24. Surrogate Voice: Maria Callas as Medea 25. Orpheus Reincarnated Part VI - Opera Returns as Cinema 26. Finale: Directors' Operas Notes Index

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  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB25933373
  • ISBN
    • 9781474291422
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    London
  • ページ数/冊数
    xii, 372 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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