| Description |
1 online resource (224 pages) |
| Series |
Critical studies ; v. 24 |
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Critical studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; v. 24.
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| Contents |
Introduction; Space, Time and Gender in the Film d'Art Carmen of 1910; Geraldine Farrar and Cecil B. DeMille: The Effect of Opera on Film and Film on Opera in 1915; Carmen and Early Cinema: The Case of Jacques Feyder (1926); Shadow and Substance: Reiniger's Carmen Cuts Her Own Capers; A Carmenesque Dietrich in The Devil Is A Woman: Erotic Scenarios, Modern Desires and Cultural Differences Between the USA and Spain; Rehispanicizing Carmen: Cultural Reappropriations in Spanish Cinema; Putting the Blame on Carmen: The Rita Hayworth Version |
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Screen Politics: Otto Preminger's Carmen JonesThe Dissonant Refrains of Jean-Luc Godard's Prénom Carmen; Carlos Saura's Carmen: Hybridity and the Inescapable Cliché; Cinematic Carmen and the 'Oeil Noir'; The Turbulent Movement of Forms: Rosi's Postmodern Carmen; Carmen as Perennial Fusion: From Habanera to Hip-Hop; List of Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
Since Prosper Mérimée and Georges Bizet (with his librettists Meilhac and Halévy) brought the figure of the Spanish Carmen to prominence in the nineteenth century an astonishing eighty or so film versions of the story have been made. This collection of essays gathers together a unique body of scholarly critique focused on that Carmen narrative in film. It covers the phenomenon from a number of aspects: cultural studies, gender studies, studies in race and representation, musicology, film history, and the history of performance. The essays take us from the days of silent film to twenty-first ce |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Carmen (Fictitious character)
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Film adaptations.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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Carmen (Fictitious character)
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Film adaptations
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| Genre/Form |
Film adaptations
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Film adaptations.
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Adaptations cinématographiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Perriam, Christopher
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Davies, Ann, 1961-
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| ISBN |
1423791452 |
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9781423791454 |
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9401202788 |
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9789401202787 |
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