Opera as soundtrack / Jeongwon Joe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joe, Jeongwon.

Series:

Ashgate interdisciplinary studies in opera.

Ashgate interdisciplinary studies in opera

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Opera in motion pictures.

Motion pictures and opera.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 207 pages ) illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jeongwon Joe examines the role of opera as soundtrack by exploring the distinct effects opera produces in film, and what elements set opera apart from other types of soundtrack music, such as jazz or symphony. The author explores why opera tends to accompany poignant, pivotal scenes; she argues that when soundtracks employ opera excerpts. Filmmakers' fascination with opera dates back to the silent era but it was not until the late 1980's that critical enquiries into the intersection of opera and cinema began to emerge. Jeongwon Joe focusses primarily on the role of opera as soundtrack by exploring the distinct effects opera produces in film, effects which differ from other types of soundtrack music, such as jazz or symphony. These effects are examined from three perspectives: peculiar qualities of the operatic voice; various properties commonly associated with opera, such as excess, otherness or death; and multifaceted tensions between opera and cinema - for instance, opera as live, embodied, high art and cinema as technologically mediated, popular entertainment.

Contents:

Opera as geno-song

Opera in cinematic death

Opera in Woody Allen's Match Point

Is cinema's anxiety opera's envy?

Film divas : the problem and the power of the singing women

Behind the discourse on the opera-cinema encounter.

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-59895-7

1-317-08548-5

1-317-08547-7

1-4724-1131-5

9781315598956

OCLC:

855504784