Wagner and Cinema

Name: Wagner and Cinema
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ISBN: 9780253221636

ISBN-10: 0253221633

ISBN-13: 9780253221636

Edition: 2010

Authors: Jeongwon Joe, Sander L. Gilman, Tony Palmer

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The work of Richard Wagner is a continuing source of artistic inspiration and ideological controversy in literature, philosophy, and music, as well as cinema. InWagner and Cinema, a diverse group of established and emerging scholars examines Wagner's influence on cinema from the silent era to the present. 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. The contributors discuss films ranging from the 1913 biopic of Wagner to Ridley Scott'sGladiator, with essays on silent cinema, film scoring, Wagner in Hollywood, German cinema,…

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List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 2/26/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 504
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Foreword



Introduction Why Wagner and Cinema? Tolkien Was Wrong




Wagner and the Silent Film



Wagnerian Motives: Narrative Integration and the Development of Silent Film Accompaniment, 1908-1913




Underscoring Drama-Picturing Music




The Life and Works of Richard Wagner (1913): Becce, Froelich, and Messter




Listening for Wagner in Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen




Wagnerian Resonance in Film Scoring



The Resonances of Wagnerian Opera and Nineteenth-Century Melodrama in the Film Scores of Max Steiner




Wagner's Influence on Gender Roles in Early Hollywood Film




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




Wagner in Hollywood



"Soll ich lauschen?": Love-Death in Humoresque




Hollywood's German Fantasy: Ridley Scott's Gladiator




Reading Wagner in Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips (1944)




Piercing Wagner: The Ring in Golden Earrings




Wagner in German Cinema



Wagner as Leitmotif: The New German Cinema and Beyond




The Power of Emotion: Wagner and Film




Wagner in East Germany: Joachim Herz's Der fliegende Hollï¿½nder (1964)




Wagner Beyond the Soundtrack



Nocturnal Wagner: The Cultural Survival of Tristan und Isolde in Hollywood




Ludwig's Wagner and Visconti's Ludwig




The Tristan Project: Time in Wagner and Viola




"The Threshold of the Visible World": Wagner, Bill Viola, and Tristan



Postlude Looking for Richard: An Archival Search for Wagner



Epilogue Some Thoughts about Wagner and Cinema; Opera and Politics; Style and Reception



Appendix Interview with Bill Viola



Filmography Jeongwon Joe



List of Contributors


Index