Cinema's Illusions, Opera's Allure

The Operatic Impulse in Film

David Schroeder (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

400 Seiten

2016
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4742-9142-2 (ISBN)

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The invention of cinema was ingenious, so much so that virtually no-one quite knew what to do with it. In its earliest stages, especially with the advent of the feature film, it needed models, and opera proved to be especially useful in that regard. The allure of opera to cinema early in the twentieth century held up through the silent era, into sound films, through the golden age of movies, and beyond. This book explores the numerous ways – some predictable, some unexpected, and some bizarre – in which this has happened.

The influence of Richard Wagner on filmmakers has been especially striking, and some have even devised visual images that seem to emerge from a kind of non-verbal Wagnerian essence – a formative, musical urge that can underlie a cinematic idea, defying explanation and remaining purely sensory. Directors like Griffith, DeMille, Eisenstein, Chaplin, Bunuel or Hitchcock have intuited this possibility.

Schroeder provides a fascinating, well-researched and always entertaining account of the influence of one medium on another, and shows that opera can often be found lurking in the background (or booming in the foreground) of an impressive range of films.

David Schroeder is Emeritus Professor at Dalhousie University, Canada.

Preface
Introduction
Part I – 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 II – The Film Score
6. The Leitmotif
7. Titles Music as Operatic Overture
Part III – 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 Va
12. The Charming Opera Snob in Hannah and Her Sisters
Part IV – Wagner’s Bastards
13. Misreading Wagner: the Politics of Lang’s Siegfried
14. Cinema as Grand Opera: Politics, Religion and DeMille
15. Bombarding the Senses: Apocalypse Now
16. Wagnerian Images of Sound and Sensuality
17. Wagner’s Ring Cycle for Adolescents: Star Wars
18. What’s Opera, Doc?
Part V – Cinema as Opera
19. Dizzying Illusion: Vertigo
20. Carmen Copies
21. Operastruck
22. Outing Opera in Philadelphia
23. Opera Obsession
24. Surrogate Voice: Maria Callas as Medea
25. Orpheus Reincarnated
Part VI – Opera Returns as Cinema
26. Finale: Directors’ Operas
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.10.2016
Reihe/Serie	Film Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	739 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
ISBN-10	1-4742-9142-2 / 1474291422
ISBN-13	978-1-4742-9142-2 / 9781474291422
Zustand	Neuware