When Opera Meets Film
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- Author: Marcia J. Citron, Rice University, Houston
- Date Published: July 2010
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- isbn: 9780521895750
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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.
Read more- The book is clearly structured around case studies, so that the reader encounters real examples rather than just theories
- Focuses on important film literature, expanding the interpretive repertoire of opera and film, allowing the reader to better understand the workings of important and familiar films
- Critical theory is applied with a light touch, so that the reader does not have to go through overly complex ideas
Reviews & endorsements
"... a fascinating, detailed study..." --Choice
See more reviews"In this follow-up to her Opera on Screen (CH, Sep'00, 38-0208), Citron (Rice Univ.) provides a fascinating, detailed study of the interrelationship between opera and film across several specific films and a number of the opera/films of Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. The films discussed at length are the Godfather trilogy, Aria, La Cèrémonie, Moonstruck, Sunday Bloody Sunday, and The Closer. Many discussions center on diegetic versus nondiegetic uses of opera and intermediality, but the author explores a wide range of topics in the context of the particular film at hand. The chapter on opera/films considers camera work, film techniques that force differential focus, and various different points of view, particularly in comparison with a staged version of the same opera. This book will make readers want to view the films in question to consider the issues Citron explores and the subjective interpretations she employs. Even those who do not agree with her will find that they will never again view the films in the same way. Citron's methodology can be applied to any musical genre, operatic or not. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals." --Online Choice
"Reccomended for upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals."
-C.A. Traupman-Carr,Moravian College"A cornucopia for lovers of opera and film, Citron's book comes highly recommended."
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- Date Published: July 2010
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521895750
- length: 344 pages
- dimensions: 234 x 159 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.68kg
- contains: 49 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. Style:
1. Operatic style in Coppola's Godfather trilogy
2. Opera as fragment: 'Liebestod' and 'Nessun dorma' in Aria
Part II. Subjectivity:
3. Subjectivity in the opera-films of Jean-Pierre Ponelle
4. Don Giovanni and subjectivity in Claude Chabrol's La Cérémonie
Part III. Desire:
5. 'An honest contrivance': opera and desire in Moonstruck
6. The sound of desire: Così's 'Soave sia il vento' in Sunday, Bloody Sunday and Closer
Epilogue
Bibliography
Filmography and videography.
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