Opera Cinema

A New Cultural Experience

Joseph Attard (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-7036-6 (ISBN)

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Since 2006, leading opera companies have beamed their shows to thousands of cinema screens all over the world – live. ‘Opera cinema’ is the most successful marriage of this elaborate, esoteric art form and the silver screen. In the twenty-first century, more people watch opera on cinema screens than the stage. But what is different about watching Massenet at the multiplex, compared to a traditional stage performance? Is opera cinema a new, hybrid art form in its own right, or merely a new way of engaging with an old one? Is it bringing new opera fans into the fold? Is there a danger it could one day eclipse the stage altogether? This book deals with these questions by charting the history of opera transmissions, exploring how digital media changes our relationship with culture and inviting a group of ‘opera virgins’ to give their impressions on this developing cultural experience.

Joseph Attard completed his PhD in Film Studies at King’s College London, UK in 2018 and is now an academic author and political journalist. His research focuses on the intersection be-tween media technology, social science and politics, the latter from a Marxist perspective. Most recently, he co-edited and contributed to a special edition of Opera Quarterly themed around the subject of opera cinema.

Acknowledgements
About the author
Preface

1. What is Opera Cinema?
2. The History of Opera Cinema
3. What Makes it Opera Cinema?
4. The Opera Virgins Project
5. A Night at the Opera Cinema?

Bibliography
Media Texts Cited
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	09.01.2024
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5013-7036-7 / 1501370367
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-7036-6 / 9781501370366
Zustand	Neuware