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Cinema's Illusions, Opera's Allure - The Operatic Impulse in Film (Hardcover)
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Cinema's Illusions, Opera's Allure - The Operatic Impulse in Film (Hardcover)
Series: Film Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
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The invention of cinema was ingenious, so much so that virtually
no-one quite knew what to do with it. In its earliest stages,
especially with the advent of the feature film, it needed models,
and opera proved to be especially useful in that regard. The allure
of opera to cinema early in the twentieth century held up through
the silent era, into sound films, through the golden age of movies,
and beyond. This book explores the numerous ways - some
predictable, some unexpected, and some bizarre - in which this has
happened. The influence of Richard Wagner on filmmakers has been
especially striking, and some have even devised visual images that
seem to emerge from a kind of non-verbal Wagnerian essence - a
formative, musical urge that can underlie a cinematic idea, defying
explanation and remaining purely sensory. Directors like Griffith,
DeMille, Eisenstein, Chaplin, Bunuel or Hitchcock have intuited
this possibility. Schroeder provides a fascinating, well-researched
and always entertaining account of the influence of one medium on
another, and shows that opera can often be found lurking in the
background (or booming in the foreground) of an impressive range of
films.
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