Wagner and Cinema available in Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0253221633
- ISBN-13:
- 9780253221636
- Pub. Date:
- 02/26/2010
- Publisher:
- Indiana University Press
- ISBN-10:
- 0253221633
- ISBN-13:
- 9780253221636
- Pub. Date:
- 02/26/2010
- Publisher:
- Indiana University Press
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ISBN-13: | 9780253221636 |
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Publisher: | Indiana University Press |
Publication date: | 02/26/2010 |
Pages: | 504 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.50(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
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Table of Contents
Foreword Tony Palmer ix
Introduction Why Wagner and Cinema? Tolkien Was Wrong Jeongwon Joe 1
Part 1 Wagner and the Silent Film
1 Wagnerian Motives: Narrative Integration and the Development of Silent Film Accompaniment, 1908-1913 James Buhler 27
2 Underscoring Drama-Picturing Music Peter Franklin 46
3 The Life and Works of Richard Wagner (1913): Becce, Froelich, and Messter Paul Fryer 65
4 Listening for Wagner in Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen Adeline Mueller 85
Part 2 Wagnerian Resonance in Film Scoring
5 The Resonances of Wagnerian Opera and Nineteenth-Century Melodrama in the Film Scores of Max Steiner David Neumeyer 111
6 Wagner's Influence on Gender Roles in Early Hollywood Film Eva Rieger 131
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 152
Part 3 Wagner in Hollywood
8 "Soll ich lauschen?": Love-Death in Humoresque Marcia J. Citron 167
9 Hollywood's German Fantasy: Ridley Scott's Gladiator Marc A. Weiner 186
10 Reading Wagner in Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips (1944) Neil Lerner 210
11 Piercing Wagner: The Ring in Golden Earrings Scott D. Paulin 225
Part 4 Wagner in German Cinema
12 Wagner as Leitmotif: The New German Cinema and Beyond Roger Hillman 253
13 The Power of Emotion: Wagner and Film Jeremy Tambling 273
14 Wagner in East Germany: Joachim Herz's Der fliegende Holländer (1964) Joy H. Calico 294
Part 5 Wagner Beyond the Soundtrack
15 Nocturnal Wagner: The Cultural Survival of Tristan und Isolde in Hollywood Elisabeth Bronfen 315
16 Ludwig's Wagner and Visconti's Ludwig Giorgio Biancorosso 333
17 The Tristan Project: Time in Wagner and Viola Jeongwon Joe 358
18 "The Threshold of the Visible World": Wagner, Bill Viola, and Tristan Lawrence Kramer 381
Postlude Looking for Richard: An Archival Search for Wagner Warren M. Sherk 408
Epilogue Some Thoughts about Wagner and Cinema; Opera and Politics; Style and Reception Sander L. Gilman 419
Appendix Interview with Bill Viola Jeongwon Joe 431
Filmography Jeongwon Joe Warren M. Sherk Scott D. Paulin 441
List of Contributors 457
Index 461
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"Each contributor to this collection brings a unique perspective on Wagner's influences on cinema. Some of the essays suggest that given his vision of Gesamtkunstwerk (synthesis of the arts), the maestro would have been more comfortable in the modern age as a movie producer/director than as a composer/director of opera. Maybe or maybe not, but Wagner's influence on cinema was certainly profound; his work inspired filmmakers and score composers from cinema's earliest years and continues to inspire today. Joe (musicology, Univ. of Cincinnati) and Gilman (liberal arts and sciences, Emory Univ.) divide the essays into five thematic parts: 'Wagner and the Silent Fil'"; 'Wagnerian Resonance in Film Scoring,' which examines specific composers, e.g., Max Steiner and Franz Waxman; 'Wagner in Hollywood,' which considers implicit/explicit use of Wagner's music in Hollywood productions; 'Wagner in German Cinema,' which treats the composer's ideological presence in new German cinema of such directors as Werner Herzog and Alexander Kluge; and 'Wagner beyond the Sound Track,' which looks at Wagner's impact on the aesthetics of cinema, film noir in particular. A useful resource for serious students of film, theater, and/or music, the book includes numerous photos, and helpful music notation enhances the text. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers. Choice"
Timely, relevant, and absolutely central to what is going on in so many fields. The editors have done a terrific job in bringing together not only the most appropriate but also the most stimulating and exciting of contributors.
Each contributor to this collection brings a unique perspective on Wagner's influences on cinema. Some of the essays suggest that given his vision of Gesamtkunstwerk (synthesis of the arts), the maestro would have been more comfortable in the modern age as a movie producer/director than as a composer/director of opera. Maybe or maybe not, but Wagner's influence on cinema was certainly profound; his work inspired filmmakers and score composers from cinema's earliest years and continues to inspire today. Joe (musicology, Univ. of Cincinnati) and Gilman (liberal arts and sciences, Emory Univ.) divide the essays into five thematic parts: 'Wagner and the Silent Fil'"; 'Wagnerian Resonance in Film Scoring,' which examines specific composers, e.g., Max Steiner and Franz Waxman; 'Wagner in Hollywood,' which considers implicit/explicit use of Wagner's music in Hollywood productions; 'Wagner in German Cinema,' which treats the composer's ideological presence in new German cinema of such directors as Werner Herzog and Alexander Kluge; and 'Wagner beyond the Sound Track,' which looks at Wagner's impact on the aesthetics of cinema, film noir in particular. A useful resource for serious students of film, theater, and/or music, the book includes numerous photos, and helpful music notation enhances the text. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers. Choice
Each contributor to this collection brings a unique perspective on Wagner's influences on cinema. Some of the essays suggest that given his vision of Gesamtkunstwerk (synthesis of the arts), the maestro would have been more comfortable in the modern age as a movie producer/director than as a composer/director of opera. Maybe or maybe not, but Wagner's influence on cinema was certainly profound; his work inspired filmmakers and score composers from cinema's earliest years and continues to inspire today. Joe (musicology, Univ. of Cincinnati) and Gilman (liberal arts and sciences, Emory Univ.) divide the essays into five thematic parts: 'Wagner and the Silent Fil'"; 'Wagnerian Resonance in Film Scoring,' which examines specific composers, e.g., Max Steiner and Franz Waxman; 'Wagner in Hollywood,' which considers implicit/explicit use of Wagner's music in Hollywood productions; 'Wagner in German Cinema,' which treats the composer's ideological presence in new German cinema of such directors as Werner Herzog and Alexander Kluge; and 'Wagner beyond the Sound Track,' which looks at Wagner's impact on the aesthetics of cinema, film noir in particular. A useful resource for serious students of film, theater, and/or music, the book includes numerous photos, and helpful music notation enhances the text. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers. —Choice
Timely, relevant, and absolutely central to what is going on in so many fields. The editors have done a terrific job in bringing together not only the most appropriate but also the most stimulating and exciting of contributors.