Between Opera and Cinema

ISBN-13: 9780815334507 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 264 str.

Jeongwon Joe; Rose Theresa; Martha Feldman

Opis

Discussing diverse works from the Marx Brothers' irreverent A Night at the Opera to the moving Chinese-language film Farewell My Concubine, scholars of opera and film explore the many ways these two seemingly unrelated genres have come together from the silent-film era to today. The volume opens an entirely new area of study, one that is of growing interest to both students of opera and film history. Since the earliest days of silent film, filmmakers have been fascinated with opera, and the many adaptations of opera for the screen underscore both the affinities and differences between these two media. This book should be interesting reading for fans of both genres.

Spis treści

Series Foreword, Martha Feldman Introduction, Rose Theresa and Jeongwon Joe 1. From Mphisophls to JeongwonSpectacle and Narrative in Opera and Early Film, Rose Theresa 2. There Ain's No Sanity Claus! The Marx Joethers at the Opera, Michal Grover Friedlander 3. The Tales of Hoffmann : An Instance of the Operatic, Lesley Stern 4. The Cinematic Body in the Operatic Theater: Philip Glass's La Belle et la bete , Jeongwon Joe 5. Why Does Hollywood Like Opera? Marc A. Weiner 6. Opera on Film: Sentiment and Wit, Feeling and Knowing, Shawshank Redemption and Prizzi's Honor , Mary Hunter 7. Is There a Text in this Libido? Diva and the Rhetoric of Contemporary Opera Criticism, David J. Levin 8. The Elusive Voice: Absence and Presence in Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's Film Le Nozze di Figaro , Marcia J. Citron 9. Verdi in Post-war Italian Cinema, Deborah Crisp and Roger Hillman 10. Chinese Opera, Global Cinema, and the Ontology of the Person: Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine , Teri Silvio 11. Sounding out the Operatic in Jacques Rivette's Noroit , Mary M. Wiles Afterword, Stanley Cavell Contributor's Notes Index

O autorze

Rose Theresa teaches at the University at Stony brook. Jeongwon Joe teaches at the University of Nevada at Reno.