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Author Citron, Marcia J.

Title When Opera Meets Film
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2010
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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 324 pages) : illustrations
Series Cambridge studies in opera
Cambridge studies in opera.
Contents Part I. Style -- 1. Operatic style in Coppola's Godfather trilogy -- 2. Opera as fragment : 'Liebestod' and 'Nessun dorma' in Aria -- Part II. Subjectivity -- 3. Subjectivity in the opera-films of Jean-Pierre Ponelle -- 4. Don Giovanni and subjectivity in Claude Chabrol's La Ceremonie -- Part III. Desire -- 5. 'An honest contrivance': opera and desire in Moonstruck -- 6. The sound of desire : Così's 'Soave sia il vento' in Sunday, Bloody Sunday and Closer
Summary "Opera can reveal something fundamental about a film, and film can do the same for an opera, argues Marcia J. Citron. Structured by the categories of Style, Subjectivity, and Desire, this volume advances our understanding of the aesthetics of the opera/film encounter. Case studies of a diverse array of important repertoire including mainstream film, opera-film, and postmodernist pastiche are presented. Citron uses Werner Wolf's theory of intermediality to probe the roles of opera and film when they combine. The book also refines and expands film-music functions, and details the impact of an opera's musical style on the meaning of a film. Drawing on cinematic traditions of Hollywood, France, and Britain, the study explores Coppola's Godfather trilogy, Jewison's Moonstruck, Nichols's Closer, Chabrol's La Ceremonie, Schlesinger's Sunday, Bloody Sunday, Boyd's Aria, and Ponnelle's opera-films"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-311) and index
Includes filmography (pages 312-314)
Notes English
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Subject Motion pictures and opera.
Opera in motion pictures.
Musical films -- History and criticism.
MUSIC -- Reference.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
Motion pictures and opera
Musical films
Opera in motion pictures
Oper
Musikfilm
Film
Cinéma et opéra.
Films musicaux -- Histoire et critique.
Opera -- influenser.
Opera i filmen.
Musikfilm -- historia.
Filmestetik.
Opera på film.
Musikfilm.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010008750
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