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.
| ISBN: | 9780521895750 |
| Publication date: | 27th May 2010 |
| Author: | Marcia J Citron |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 324 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Opera |
| Genres: |
Opera |
Opera can reveal something fundamental about a film, and film can do the same for an opera, argues Marcia J. Citron.
When Opera Meets Film features in the following genres: Opera
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When Opera Meets Film was written by Marcia J Citron and published by Cambridge University Press
When Opera Meets Film has 324 pages
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