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Author:   David Schroeder (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.739kg
ISBN:  

9781474291422

ISBN 10:   1474291422
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   06 October 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Part I - Appropriation of Opera in Early Cinema 1. Silent Opera: DeMille's Carmen 2. D. W. Griffith as a Wagnerian 3. Stage Fright: Phantom of the Opera 4. A Life at the Opera 5. Synesthesia: Alexander Nevsky as Opera Part II - The Film Score 6. The Leitmotif 7. Titles Music as Operatic Overture Part III - Cinema Gives Opera the Finger 8. Casting Opera in our Teeth: Chaplin's Carmen 9. Attack of the Anarchists: A Night at the Opera 10. Deflated and Flat: Opera in Citizen Kane 11. Bursting Out Into Opera: Fellini's E La Nave Va 12. The Charming Opera Snob in Hannah and Her Sisters Part IV - Wagner's Bastards 13. Misreading Wagner: the Politics of Lang's Siegfried 14. Cinema as Grand Opera: Politics, Religion and DeMille 15. Bombarding the Senses: Apocalypse Now 16. Wagnerian Images of Sound and Sensuality 17. Wagner's Ring Cycle for Adolescents: Star Wars 18. What's Opera, Doc? Part V - Cinema as Opera 19. Dizzying Illusion: Vertigo 20. Carmen Copies 21. Operastruck 22. Outing Opera in Philadelphia 23. Opera Obsession 24. Surrogate Voice: Maria Callas as Medea 25. Orpheus Reincarnated Part VI - Opera Returns as Cinema 26. Finale: Directors' Operas Notes Index

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David Schroeder is Emeritus Professor at Dalhousie University, Canada.

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