| Description |
xiii, 487 pages : illustration, music ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references, filmography (pages 441-455), and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Why Wagner and cinema? Tolkien was wrong / Jeongwon Joe -- -- Part 1. Wagner and the silent film. Wagnerian motives : narrative integration and the development of silent film accompaniment, 1908-1913 / James Buhler -- Underscoring drama, picturing music / Peter Franklin -- The life and works of Richard Wagner (1913) : Becce, Froelich, and Messter / Paul Fryer -- Listening for Wagner in Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen / Adeline Mueller -- -- Part 2. Wagnerian resonance in film scoring. The resonances of Wagnerian opera and nineteenth-century melodrama in the film scores of Max Steiner / David Neumeyer -- Wagner's influence on gender roles in early Hollywood film / Eva Rieger -- 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 3. Wagner in Hollywood. "Soll ich lauschen?" : love-death in Humoresque / Marcia J. Citron -- Hollywood's German fantasy : Ridley Scott's Gladiator / Marc A. Weiner -- Reading Wagner in Bugs Bunny nips the nips (1944) / Neil Lerner -- Piercing Wagner : the Ring in Golden earrings / Scott D. Paulin -- -- Part 4. Wagner in German cinema. Wagner as leitmotif : the new German cinema and beyond / Roger Hillman -- The power of emotion : Wagner and film / Jeremy Tambling -- Wagner in East Germany : Joachim Herz's Der fliegende Holländer (1964) / Joy H. Calico -- -- Part 5. Wagner beyond the soundtrack. Nocturnal Wagner : the cultural survival of Tristan und Isolde in Hollywood / Elisabeth Bronfen -- Ludwig's Wagner and Visconti's Ludwig / Giorgio Biancorosso -- The Tristan project : time in Wagner and Viola / Jeongwon Joe -- "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. |
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Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.
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Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. |
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Motion picture music -- History and criticism.
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Motion picture music. |
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Motion pictures and opera.
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Motion pictures and opera. |
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Operas -- Film adaptations.
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Operas -- Film adaptations. |
| Genre/Form |
Film adaptations.
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Film adaptations.
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| Added Author |
Joe, Jeongwon.
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Gilman, Sander L.
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| Added Title |
Wagner and cinema |
| ISBN |
9780253221636 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780253300300 cloth alkaline paper |
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0253300304 cloth alkaline paper |
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0253221633 paperback alkaline paper |
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