{"product_id":"wagner-and-cinema-paperback-softback-9780253221636","title":"Wagner and Cinema (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253221636","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWagner and Cinema\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJeongwon Joe (Edited by), Sander L. Gilman (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253221636\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 26 February 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e504 pages, 28 b\u0026amp;w illus., 35 musical exx.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.481 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e \"[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\"—\u003ci\u003eJrnl American Musicological Soc JAMS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"[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\"—Nathan Waddell, \u003ci\u003eScope\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"[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\"—\u003ci\u003eScreening the Past\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"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.\"—\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Wagner \u0026amp; 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)\"—\u003ci\u003eGerman Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"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\"—\u003ci\u003eCamero-Stylo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe work of Richard Wagner is a continuing source of artistic inspiration and ideological controversy in literature, philosophy, and music, as well as cinema. In \u003ci\u003eWagner and Cinema,\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eGladiator,\u003c\/i\u003e with essays on silent cinema, film scoring, Wagner in Hollywood, German cinema, and Wagner beyond the soundtrack.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword by Tony Palmer\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Why Wagner and Cinema? Tolkien Was Wrong \\ Jeongwon Joe\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Wagner and the Silent Film\u003cbr\u003e 1. Wagnerian Motives: Narrative Integration and the Development of Silent Film Accompaniment, 1908–1913 \\ James Buhler\u003cbr\u003e 2. Underscoring Drama—Picturing Music \\ Peter Franklin\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Life and Works of Richard Wagner (1913): Becce, Froelich, and Messter \\ Paul Fryer\u003cbr\u003e 4. Listening for Wagner in Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen \\ Adeline Mueller\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. Wagnerian Resonance in Film Scoring\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Resonances of Wagnerian Opera and Nineteenth-Century Melodrama in the Film Scores of Max Steiner\\ David Neumeyer\u003cbr\u003e 6. Wagner's Influence on Gender Roles in Early Hollywood Film \\ Eva Rieger\u003cbr\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e Part 3. Wagner in Hollywood\u003cbr\u003e 8. \"Soll ich lauschen?\": Love-Death in Humoresque \\ Marcia J. Citron\u003cbr\u003e 9. Hollywood's German Fantasy: Ridley Scott's Gladiator \\ Marc A. Weiner\u003cbr\u003e 10. Reading Wagner in Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips (1944) \\ Neil Lerner\u003cbr\u003e 11. Piercing Wagner: The Ring in Golden Earrings \\ Scott D. Paulin\u003cbr\u003e Part 4. Wagner in German Cinema\u003cbr\u003e 12. Wagner as Leitmotif: The New German Cinema and Beyond \\ Roger Hillman\u003cbr\u003e 13. The Power of Emotion: Wagner and Film \\ Jeremy Tambling\u003cbr\u003e 14. Wagner in East Germany: Joachim Herz's Der fliegende Holländer (1964) \\ Joy H. Calico\u003cbr\u003e Part 5. Wagner beyond the Soundtrack\u003cbr\u003e 15. Nocturnal Wagner: The Cultural Survival of Tristan und Isolde in Hollywood \\ Elisabeth Bronfen\u003cbr\u003e 16. Ludwig's Wagner and Visconti's Ludwig \\ Giorgio Biancorosso\u003cbr\u003e 17. The Tristan Project: Time in Wagner and Viola \\ Jeongwon Joe\u003cbr\u003e 18. \"The Threshold of the Visible World\": Wagner, Bill Viola, and Tristan \\ Lawrence Kramer\u003cbr\u003e Postlude: Looking for Richard: An Archival Search for Wagner \\ Warren M. Sherk\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Some Thoughts about Wagner and Cinema; Opera and Politics; Style and Reception \\ Sander L. Gilman\u003cbr\u003e Interview with Bill Viola \\ Jeongwon Joe\u003cbr\u003e Filmography \\ Jeongwon Joe, Warren M. Sherk, and Scott D. Paulin\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52525937295640,"sku":"9780253221636","price":18.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/wagner-and-cinema-paperback-softback-9780253221636","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}