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Author : Jeremy Tambling
Release : 1987
Genre : Motion picture plays
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Book Rating : 388/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Opera, Ideology and Film by : Jeremy Tambling
Download or read book Opera, Ideology and Film written by Jeremy Tambling. This book was released on 1987. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michal Grover-Friedlander
Release : 2014-12-25
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 74X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Vocal Apparitions by : Michal Grover-Friedlander
Download or read book Vocal Apparitions written by Michal Grover-Friedlander. This book was released on 2014-12-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinema and opera have become intertwined in a variety of powerful and unusual ways. Vocal Apparitions tells the story of this fascinating intersection, interprets how it occurred, and explores what happens when opera is projected onto the medium of film. Michal Grover-Friedlander finds striking affinities between film and opera--from Lon Chaney's classic silent film, The Phantom of the Opera, to the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera to Fellini's E la nave va. One of the guiding questions of this book is what occurs when what is aesthetically essential about one medium is transposed into the aesthetic field of the other. For example, Grover-Friedlander's comparison of an opera by Poulenc and a Rossellini film, both based on Cocteau's play The Human Voice, shows the relation of the vocal and the visual to be surprisingly affected by the choice of the medium. Her analysis of the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera demonstrates how, as a response to opera's infatuation with death, cinema comically acts out a correction of opera's fate. Grover-Friedlander argues that filmed operas such as Zeffirelli's Otello and Friedrich's Falstaff show the impossibility of a direct transformation of the operatic into the cinematic. Paradoxically, cinema at times can be more operatic than opera itself, thus capturing something essential that escapes opera's self-understanding. A remarkable look at how cinema has been haunted--and transformed--by opera, Vocal Apparitions reveals something original and important about each medium.
Author : David P. Schroeder
Release : 2020
Genre : Electronic books
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 408/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Cinema's Illusions, Opera's Allure by : David P. Schroeder
Download or read book Cinema's Illusions, Opera's Allure written by David P. Schroeder. This book was released on 2020. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The allure of opera to cinema early in the century held up through the silent era, into sound films, through the golden age of movies and into the most recent approaches to cinema. This book explores the many different ways that this has happened.
Author : Marcia J. Citron
Release : 2010-05-27
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 631/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis When Opera Meets Film by : Marcia J. Citron
Download or read book When Opera Meets Film written by Marcia J. Citron. This book was released on 2010-05-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Wolf's 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.
Author : Fabio Vighi
Release : 2012-05-03
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 125/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Critical Theory and Film by : Fabio Vighi
Download or read book Critical Theory and Film written by Fabio Vighi. This book was released on 2012-05-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Theory and Film brings together critical theory and film to enhance the critical potential of both. The book focuses on the Frankfurt School, most notably the works of Adorno and Horkheimer, as well as associated thinkers. It seeks to demonstrate that cinema can help critical theory repoliticize culture and society and affirm the theoretical and political impact of cinematic knowledge. After discussing how the Frankfurt School saw cinema as an instrument of capitalism use to promote the cultural and political regimentation of the masses, Vighi then proceeds to demonstrate that critical theory can in fact suggest a different verdict on the progressive potential of cinema. Each chapter focuses on a key critical theory concept that is explained and redefined through film analysis to unravel the hidden presuppositions and most radical consequences of critical theory. A unique contribution to the literature, this volume in the Critical Theory and Contemporary Society series offer an innovative reading of film as a critical tool, drawing on the latest developments in Lacanian theory.
