When Opera Meets Film / Marcia J. Citron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Citron, Marcia J.

Series:

Cambridge books online.

Cambridge Studies in Opera

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures and opera.

Opera in motion pictures.

Musical films--History and criticism.

Musical films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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PDF

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 Wolfs 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 Cérémonie, Schlesinger's Sunday, Bloody Sunday, Boyd's Aria, and Ponnelle's opera-films. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Style

1 Operatic style in Coppola's Godfather trilogy 19

2 Opera as fragment: "Liebestod" and "Nessun dorma" in Aria 58

Part II Subjectivity

3 Subjectivity in the opera-films of Jean-Pierre Ponnelle 97

4 Don Giovanni and subjectivity in Claude Chabrol's La Ceremonie 16

Part III Desire

5 'An honest contrivance": opera and desire in Moonstruck 173

6 The sound of desire: Cosi's "Soave sia il vento" in Sunday, Bloody Sunday and Closer 212.

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ISBN:

9780511781834

9780521895750

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