Description |
1 online resource (xv, 244 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Critical and cultural musicology |
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Critical and cultural musicology.
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Contents |
From Méphistophélès to Méliès : spectacle and narrative in opera and early film / Rose Theresa -- "There ain't no sanity claus!" The Marx Brothers at the opera / Michal Grover-Friedlander -- The tales of Hoffman : an instance of operality / Lesley Stern -- The cinematic body in the operatic theater : Philip Glass's La belle et la bête / Jeongwon Joe -- Why does Hollywood like opera? / Marc A. Weiner -- Opera in film : sentiment and wit, feeling and knowing : The Shawshank redemption and Prizzi's honor / Mary Hunter -- Is there a text in this libido? Diva and the rhetoric of contemporary opera criticism / David J. Levin -- The elusive voice : absence and presence in Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's film Le nozze di Figaro / Marcia J. Citron -- Verdi in postwar Italian cinema / Deborah Crisp and Roger Hillman -- Chinese opera, global cinema, and the ontology of the person : Chen Kaige's Farewell my concubine / Teri Silvio -- Sounding out the operatic : Jacques Rivette's Noroît / Mary M. Wiles |
Summary |
Leading scholars of opera and film explore the many ways these two seemingly unrelated genres have come together from the silent-film era to today |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Motion pictures and opera.
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Operas -- Film adaptations.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Opera.
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MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Opera & Classical Scores.
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Motion pictures and opera
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Operas
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Opernfilm
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Oper
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Film
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Filmmuziek.
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Opera's.
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Bewerkingen.
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Genre/Form |
Film adaptations
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Joe, Jeongwon
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Theresa, Rose
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LC no. |
2001034879 |
ISBN |
9781136534003 |
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1136534008 |
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9780203055540 |
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0203055543 |
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1283887843 |
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9781283887847 |
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