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Opera as Soundtrack (Paperback)
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Opera as Soundtrack (Paperback)
Series: Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera
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Filmmakers' fascination with opera dates back to the silent era but
it was not until the late 1980s that critical enquiries into the
intersection of opera and cinema began to emerge. Jeongwon Joe
focusses primarily on the role of opera as soundtrack by exploring
the distinct effects opera produces in film, effects which differ
from other types of soundtrack music, such as jazz or symphony.
These effects are examined from three perspectives: peculiar
qualities of the operatic voice; various properties commonly
associated with opera, such as excess, otherness or death; and
multifaceted tensions between opera and cinema - for instance,
opera as live, embodied, high art and cinema as technologically
mediated, popular entertainment. Joe argues that when opera
excerpts are employed on soundtracks they tend to appear at
critical moments of the film, usually associated with the
protagonists, and the author explores why it is opera, not symphony
or jazz, that accompanies poignant scenes like these. Joe's film
analysis focuses on the time period of the post-1970s, which is
distinguished by an increase of opera excerpts on soundtracks to
blockbuster titles, the commercial recognition of which promoted
the production of numerous opera soundtrack CDs in the following
years. Joe incorporates an empirical methodology by examining
primary sources such as production files, cue-sheets and
unpublished interviews with film directors and composers to enhance
the traditional hermeneutic approach. The films analysed in her
book include Woody Allen's Match Point, David Cronenberg's M.
Butterfly, and Wong Kar-wai's 2046.
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