When Opera Meets Film

by Marcia J. Citron

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521895758
• ISBN13: 9780521895750
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.0"