Cinema's Illusions, Opera's Allure: The Operatic Impulse in Film

Schroeder, David

ISBN 10: 0826413927 / ISBN 13: 9780826413925

Published by Continuum, 2002

About this Item

Continuum, 2002. Book has mild rubbing to covers, faint smudges to top and outer textblocks, light wear to edges and corners. otherwise in very good condition, strong binding, bright and unmarked pages; an overall sturdy copy with clean interiors. Dust jacket has mild rubbing to front/back, mild wear to top/bottom edges and corners, scuffs and smudges to spine. in very good condition, now in archival cover.

Seller Inventory # 1025690

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cinema's Illusions, Opera's Allure: The Operatic Impulse in Film
• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826413927
• ISBN 13: 9780826413925
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Film

About this title

Synopsis

From Richard Wagner and George Lucas to Alfred Hitchcock and Maria Callas, Schroeder provides a fascinating account of the entire absorbing history of the interdependence of opera and film, demonstrating how opera can be found lurking in the background of a wide range of films.

The allure of opera to cinema early in the century held up through the silent era, into sound films, through the golden age of movies, and into the most recent approaches to moviemaking. Cinema's Illusions, Opera's Allure explores the numerous ways - some predictable, some unexpected, and some bizarre - that this has happened.

About the Author

David Schroeder is Professor of Music and Film Studies and the Associate Dean of Arts and Social Sciences at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. His two previous books are Haydn and the Enlightenment (Oxford UP) and Mozart in Revolt: Strategies of Resistance, Mischief and Deception (Yale UP).