Wagner and cinema
By: edited by Jeongwon Joe and Sander L. Gilman ; foreword by Tony Palmer ; interview with Bill Viola.
Contributors: Joe, Jeongwon.; Gilman., Sander L.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780253300300; 9780253221636
Subjects: Wagner, Richard, -- 1813-1883; Motion picture music -- History and criticism; Motion pictures and opera; Operas -- Film adaptations
Genres: Film adaptations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Why Wagner and cinema? Tolkien was wrong / Jeongwon Joe; title: Part 1. Wagner and the silent film. Wagnerian motives : narrative integration and the development of silent film   accompaniment, 1908-1913 / James Buhler ; Underscoring drama; title: picturing music / Peter Franklin ; The life and works of Richard Wagner (1913) : Becce, Froelich, and Messter / Paul   Fryer ; Listening for Wagner in Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen / Adeline Mueller; title: Part 2. Wagnerian resonance in film scoring ; The resonances of Wagnerian opera and nineteenth-century melodrama in the film scores of Max Steiner / David Neumeyer ; Wagner's influence on gender roles in early Hollywood film / Eva Rieger ; 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; title: Part 3. Wagner in Hollywood. "Soll ich lauschen?" : Love-death in Humoresque / Marcia J. Citron ; Hollywood's German fantasy: Ridley Scott's Gladiator / Marc A. Weiner ; Reading Wagner in Bugs Bunny nips the nips (1944) / Neil Lerner ; Piercing Wagner: The Ring in Golden earrings / Scott D. Paulin; title: Part 4. Wagner in German cinema. Wagner as leitmotif: the new German cinema and beyond / Roger Hillman ; The power of emotion: Wagner and film / Jeremy Tambling ; Wagner in East Germany: Joachim Herz's Der fliegende Holländer (1964) / Joy H. Calico; title: Part 5. Wagner beyond the soundtrack. Nocturnal Wagner: the cultural survival of Tristan und Isolde in Hollywood / Elisabeth Bronfen ; Ludwig's Wagner and Visconti's Ludwig / Giorgio Biancorosso ; The Tristan Project: time in Wagner and Viola / Jeongwon Joe ; "The threshold of the visible world": Wagner, Bill Viola, and Tristan / Lawrence Kramer; title: Postlude: Looking for Richard: an archival search for Wagner / Warren M. Sherk; title: Epilogue: Some thoughts about Wagner and cinema; opera and politics, style and reception / Sander L. Gilman.