Between opera and cinema / edited by Jeongwon Joe and Rose Theresa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Joe, Jeongwon.

Theresa, Rose.

Series:

Critical and cultural musicology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures and opera.

Operas--Film adaptations.

Operas.

Genre:

Film adaptations.

Physical Description:

xv, 244 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2002.

Summary:

Discussing diverse works -- from the Marx Brothers' irreverent A Night at the Opera to the moving Chinese-language film Farewell My Concubine -- 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. Filmmakers have been fascinated with opera since the earliest days of silent film, and the many adaptations of opera for the screen underscore both the affinities and differences between these two media. Despite the century-long. mutual attraction between opera and cinema, there are but a handful of book-length studies devoted to the topic. By offering a mapping out of some of the richly ambivalent spaces between the two forms of representation, this volume stimulates more dialogue within and beyond the growing community of opera cinema studies. This book will make for fascinating reading for fans of both genres.

Contents:

1 From Mephistopheles to Melies: Spectacle and Narrative in Opera and Early Film / Rose Theresa 1

2 "There Ain't No Sanity Claus!" The Marx Brothers at the Opera / Michal Grover-Friedlander 19

3 The Tales of Hoffmann: An Instance of Operality / Lesley Stern 39

4 The Cinematic Body in the Operatic Theater: Philip Glass's La Belle et la Bete / Jeongwon Joe 59

5 Why Does Hollywood Like Opera? / Marc A. Weiner 75

6 Opera in Film: Sentiment and Wit, Feeling and Knowing: The Shawshank Redemption and Prizzi's Honor / Mary Hunter 93

7 Is There a Text in This Libido? Diva and the Rhetoric of Contemporary Opera Criticism / David J. Levin 121

8 The Elusive Voice: Absence and Presence in Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's Film Le nozze di Figaro / Marcia J. Citron 133

9 Verdi in Postwar Italian Cinema / Deborah Crisp, Roger Hillman 155

10 Chinese Opera, Global Cinema, and the Ontology of the Person: Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine / Teri Silvio 177

11 Sounding Out the Operatic: Jacques Rivette's Noroit / Mary M. Wiles 199.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0815334508

OCLC:

47013261