Cinema's illusions, opera's allure : the operatic impulse in film /: the operatic impulse in film. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David Schroeder.
• Authors: Schroeder, David P, 1946-
• Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; PART ONE APPROPRIATION OF OPERA IN EARLY CINEMA; 1. Silent opera: DeMille's Carmen; 2. D.W Griffith as a Wagnerian; 3. Stage fright: Phantom of the Opera; 4. A life at the opera; 5. Synesthesia: Alexander Nevsky as opera; PART TWO THE FILM SCORE; 6. The leitmotif; 7. Titles music as operatic overture; PART THREE CINEMA GIVES OPERA THE FINGER; 8. Casting opera in our teeth: Chaplin's Carmen; 9. Attack of the anarchists: A Night at the Opera; 10. Deflated and flat: opera in Citizen Kane. 11. Bursting out into opera: Fellini's E la nave va12. The charming opera snob in Hannah and Her Sisters; PART FOUR WAGNER'S BASTARDS; 13. Misreading Wagner: the politics of Lang's Siegfried; 14. Cinema as grand opera: politics, religion and DeMille; Opera politic; Joan the Woman; Samson and Delilah; The Ten Commandments; 15. Bombarding the senses: Apocalypse Now; 16. Wagnerian images of sound and sensuality; Buiiuel as Wagnerian; Chaplin's Lohengrin; Love and duty; Nosferatu; 17. Wagner's Ring cycle for adolescents: Star Wars; 18. What's opera, Doc?; PART FIVE CINEMA AS OPERA. 19. Dizzying illusion: Vertigo20. Carmen copies; Carmen Jones; Prénom Carmen; 21. Operastruck; 22. Outing opera in Philadelphia; 23. Opera obsession; Jungle opera; Mixed gender; Camp; Pirated voice; 24. Surrogate voice: Maria Callas as Medea; 25. Orpheus reincarnated; Reel Orpheus; Phantom Orpheus; Orphic themes; PART SIX OPERA RETURNS AS CINEMA; 26. Finale: directors' operas; Zeffìrelli's Otello; Losey's Don Giovanni; Sellars's Cosí fan tutte; Rosi's Carmen; Notes; Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 791.43/657; Motion pictures and opera; Opera in motion pictures; Operas -- Film adaptations; PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism; Motion pictures and opera; Opera in motion pictures; Operas; Electronic books; Film adaptations
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474291415; 1474291414
• Related ISBNs: 9781474291422; 1474291422
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource, title from PDF title page (EBSCO), viewed August 31, 2016.
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