Wagner and Cinema
By: Gilman, Sander L. (Edited by), Joe, Jeongwon (Edited by).
Indiana University Press. Published: 25/02/2010. Audience Guide: Professional & Vocational.
Hardback. Sourced from U.S.A.
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ISBN10/13: 0253300304/9780253300300
TITLE: Wagner and Cinema
CONTRIBUTORS: Gilman, Sander L. (Edited by), Joe, Jeongwon (Edited by)
IMPRINT: Indiana University Press
PUBLISHER: Indiana University Press
FORMAT: Hardback
PUBLICATION DATE: 25/02/2010
SUBJECT: Film, Television & Video, Performing Arts, Theory & Critism, Opera
PAGES: 408
AUDIENCE GUIDE: Professional & Vocational
ILLUSTRATIONS: 28 b&w illustrations, 35 musical exx.
CONTENTS: Foreword / Nike Wagner Introduction: Why Wagner and Cinema?: Tolkien was Wrong / Jeongwon Joe Part I: Wagner and the Silent Film 1. Wagnerian Motives: Narrative Integration and the Development of Silent Film Accompaniment, 1908-1913 / James Buhler; 2. Underscoring Drama, Picturing Music / Peter Franklin; 3. The Life and Works of Richard Wagner (1913): Becce, Froelich, and Messter / Paul Fryer; 4. Listening for Wagner in Fritz Lang's Die Niebelungen / Adeline Mueller Part II: Wagnerian Resonance in Film Scoring 5. The Resonances of Wagnerian Opera and Nineteenth-Century Melodrama in the Film Scores of Max Steiner / David Neumeyer; 6. Wagner's Influence on Gender Roles in Early Hollywood Film / Eva Rieger; 7. The Penumbra of Wagner's Ombra in Two Science Fiction Films from 1951: The Thing from Another World and The Day the Earth Stood Still / William H. Rosar Part III: Wagner in Hollywood 8. "Soll ich lauschen?": Love-Death in Humoresque / Marcia J. Citron; 9. Hollywood's German Fantasy: Ridley Scott's Gladiator / Marc A. Weiner; 10. Reading Wagner in Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips (1944) / Neil Lerner; 11. Piercing Wagner: The Ring in Golden Earrings / Scott D. Paulin Part IV: Wagner in German Cinema 12. Wagner as Leitmotif: The New German Cinema and Beyond / Roger Hillman; 13. The Power of Emotion: Wagner and Film / Jeremy Tambling; 14. Wagner in East Germany: Joachim Herz's Der Fliegende Hollander (1964) / Joy Haslam Calico Part V: Wagner beyond the Soundtrack 15. Nocturnal Wagner: The Cultural Survival of Tristan and Isolde in Hollywood / Elisabeth Bronfen; 16. Ludwig's Wagner and Visconti's Ludwig / Giorgio Biancoroso; 17. The Tristan Project: Time in Wagner and Viola / Jeongwon Joe; 18. "The Threshold of the Visible World": Wagner, Bill Viola, and Tristan / Lawrence Kramer Postlude: Looking for Richard: An Archival Search for Wagner / Warren M. Sherk; Epilogue: Some Thoughts about Wagner and Cinema; Opera and Politics; Style and Reception / Sander L. Gilman Appendix: Interview with Bill Viola / Jeongwon Joe; Filmography: Jeongwon Joe, Warren M. Sherk, and Scott D. Paulin with a postscript by Paulin; Index
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