Wagner and Cinema - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253221633 ISBN 13: 9780253221636

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2010

Synopsis

The work of Richard Wagner is a continuing source of artistic inspiration and ideological controversy in literature, philosophy, and music, as well as cinema. In Wagner 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’s Gladiator, with essays on silent cinema, film scoring, Wagner in Hollywood, German cinema, and Wagner beyond the soundtrack.

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Product Description:

The work of Richard Wagner is a continuing source of artistic inspiration and ideological controversy in literature, philosophy, and music, as well as cinema. This title examines Wagner's influence on cinema from the silent era.

Review:

[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.Issue 24, 2012 Author: Nathan Waddell Source: Scope

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. Source: Choice

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. 34/2 (2011) Source: German Studies Review

[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. Vol. 64 2 Summer 2011 Source: Jrnl American Musicological Soc JAMS

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.March 01, 2010 Source: Camero-Stylo

[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.Issue 29 Source: Screening the Past

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0253221633
• ISBN 13: 9780253221636
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 504
• Editor: Joe Jeongwon, Gilman Sander L.