Between Opera and Cinema

by Joe,Jeongwon; Joe,Jeongwon

• ISBN13: 9780815334507
• ISBN10: 0815334508
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-02-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Discussing diverse works -- from the Marx Brothers' irreverent A Night at the Opera to the moving Chinese-language film Farewell My Concubine -- leading scholars of opera and film explore the many ways these two seemingly unrelated genres have come together, from the silent-film era to today. Filmmakers have been fascinated with opera since the earliest days of silent film, and the many adaptations of opera for the screen underscore both the affinities and differences between these two media. Despite the century-long. mutual attraction between opera and cinema, there are but a handful of book-length studies devoted to the topic. By offering a mapping out of some of the richly ambivalent spaces between the two forms of representation, this volume stimulates more dialogue within and beyond the growing community of opera cinema studies. This book will make for fascinating reading for fans of both genres. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Jeongwon Joe is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Nevada, Reno Rose Theresa teaches music history at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Foreword	vii
Martha Feldman
Introduction	ix
Rose Theresa
Jeongwon Joe
From Mephistopheles to Melies
Spectacle and Narrative in Opera and Early Film	1	(18)
Rose Theresa
``There Ain't No Sanity Claus!''
The Marx Brothers at the Opera	19	(20)
Michal Grover-Friedlander
The Tales of Hoffmann
An Instance of Operality	39	(20)
Lesley Stern
The Cinematic Body in the Operatic Theater
Philip Glass's La Belle et la Bete	59	(16)
Jeongwon Joe
Why Does Hollywood Like Opera?	75	(80)
Marc A. Weiner
Opera in Film
Sentiment and Wit, Feeling and Knowing: The Shawshank Redemption and Prizzi's Honor	93	(28)
Mary Hunter
Is There a Text in This Libido?
Diva and the Rhetoric of Contemporary Opera Criticism	121	(12)
David J. Levin
The Elusive Voice
Absence and Presence in Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's Film Le nozze di Figaro	133	(22)
Marcia J. Citron
Verdi in Postwar Italian Cinema	155	(68)
Deborah Crisp
Roger Hillman
Chinese Opera, Global Cinema, and the Ontology of the Person
Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine	177	(22)
Teri Silvio
Sounding Out the Operatic
Jacques Rivette's Noroit	199	(24)
Mary M. Wiles
Afterword In Appreciation	223	(8)
Stanley Cavell
Contributors	231	(4)
Index	235