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When Opera Meets Film.
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in opera.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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 Ceremonie, Schlesinger's Sunday, Bloody Sunday, Boyd's Aria, and Ponnelle's opera-films"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 324 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-311) and index. Includes filmography (pages 312-314). |
| ISBN: | 9780511787874 0511787871 9780511786730 0511786735 9780511789335 0511789335 9780511781834 0511781830 0511848528 9780511848520 1107212065 9781107212060 1282723537 9781282723535 9786612723537 661272353X 0511788606 9780511788604 0511785593 9780511785597 |