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Author:   Jeongwon Joe ,  Sander L. Gilman
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.481kg
ISBN:  

9780253221636

ISBN 10:   0253221633
Pages:   504
Publication Date:   26 February 2010
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Foreword by Tony Palmer Introduction: Why Wagner and Cinema? Tolkien Was Wrong \ Jeongwon Joe Part 1. Wagner and the Silent Film 1. Wagnerian Motives: Narrative Integration and the Development of Silent Film Accompaniment, 1908–1913 \ James Buhler 2. Underscoring Drama—Picturing Music \ Peter Franklin 3. The Life and Works of Richard Wagner (1913): Becce, Froelich, and Messter \ Paul Fryer 4. Listening for Wagner in Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen \ Adeline Mueller 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 6. Wagner's Influence on Gender Roles in Early Hollywood Film \ Eva Rieger 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 Part 3. Wagner in Hollywood 8. ""Soll ich lauschen?"": Love-Death in Humoresque \ Marcia J. Citron 9. Hollywood's German Fantasy: Ridley Scott's Gladiator \ Marc A. Weiner 10. Reading Wagner in Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips (1944) \ Neil Lerner 11. Piercing Wagner: The Ring in Golden Earrings \ Scott D. Paulin Part 4. Wagner in German Cinema 12. Wagner as Leitmotif: The New German Cinema and Beyond \ Roger Hillman 13. The Power of Emotion: Wagner and Film \ Jeremy Tambling 14. Wagner in East Germany: Joachim Herz's Der fliegende Holländer (1964) \ Joy H. Calico Part 5. Wagner beyond the Soundtrack 15. Nocturnal Wagner: The Cultural Survival of Tristan und Isolde in Hollywood \ Elisabeth Bronfen 16. Ludwig's Wagner and Visconti's Ludwig \ Giorgio Biancorosso 17. The Tristan Project: Time in Wagner and Viola \ Jeongwon Joe 18. ""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 Interview with Bill Viola \ Jeongwon Joe Filmography \ Jeongwon Joe, Warren M. Sherk, and Scott D. Paulin List of Contributors Index"

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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. --Linda Hutcheon, author of A Theory of Adaptation

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 A. C. Shahriari, Kent State University, December 2010 The essays in this collection engage in a critical dialogue with existing studies-extending and renovating current theories related to the topic-and propose unexplored topics and new methodological perspectives. -Camero-Stylo, March 01, 2010 A useful resource for serious students of film, theater, and/or music, the book includes numerous photos, and helpful music notation enhances the text... Recommended. -Choice [T]he book... present[s] the reader with a strong and very varied attempt to discuss the relation between Wagner, opera and cinema and includes a vast array of densely detailed information covering large historical periods in many of its well-written essays. -Screening the Past, Issue 29 Wagner & Cinema provides a comprehensive discussion of its subject... [I]t offers an excellent introduction for scholars interested in Wagner's influence on film and offers a starting point for future studies. -German Studies Review, 34/2 (2011) [Wagner and Cinema] looks at the plethora of senses in which Wagner's music and different kinds of Wagnerian reception histories have informed cinematic production throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries...Wagner and Cinema is a text that will no doubt be consulted for many years henceforward. -Nathan Waddell, Scope, Issue 24, 2012 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. -Linda Hutcheon, author of A Theory of Adaptation [D]emands and deserves a commitment of time and space from a wide range of readers as they experience its transitions... and powerful enlightening moments. -Jrnl American Musicological Soc JAMS

Author Information

Jeongwon Joe is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Cincinnati. She is editor of Between Opera and Cinema (with Rose Theresa) and has published articles on Milos Forman's Amadeus, Philip Glass's La Belle et la Bête, David Lynch's Blue Velvet, Gérard Corbiau's Farinelli, and other works related to opera and film music. Sander L. Gilman is Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Emory University. He is author of Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity; Multiculturalism and the Jews; Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery; Freud, Race, and Gender; and Jewish Self-Hatred: Anti-Semitism and the Hidden Language of the Jews.

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