The Composer on Screen
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-9965-6 (ISBN)
This collection of essays explores the many and varied ways in which composers have been depicted on the cinema screen. Beginning with some of the very earliest silent films examples – which were amongst the first feature-length “bio-pics” ever to be produced, these essays range in subject from the 12th century abbess, Hildegard of Bingen, through the great classical and romantic eras of Verdi, Wagner, Berlioz and Strauss, up to the 20th century, Elgar, Delius, Gershwin and Blitzstein.
Paul Fryer is a professor at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance (UK), where he is Director of The Stanislavski Centre and editor-in-chief of the journal, Stanislavski Studies.
Table of Contents
Foreword: What Composers on Screen Can Do for Us (Russell Jackson)
Introduction (Paul Fryer)
Composers on Screen and on Stage: A Comparison (Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe)
Orpheus in the Movie World: Offenbach on Film (Laurence Senelick)
Dance of the Seven Veils (Pierre Bellemare)
Verdi: A Life in Three Movies (Paul Fryer)
Sisters of Faith and Genius: Hildegard von Bingen and Nannerl Mozart
(Carmen Gorgichuk)
Le Roi danse (The King Dances) (Pierre Bellemare)
Hagiography or Realism? Wagner Bio-Pics (F. Jane Schopf)
Staging Gender and Genius in James Lapine’s Impromptu (Lindsay Brandon Hunter)
Picturing the Cradle: Blitzstein as Memory, Blitzstein as Comedy (John Patrick Bray)
Cole Porter’s Fabulous Film Lives: Night and Day and De-Lovely (Ellen M. Peck)
La Symphonie fantastique (Pierre Bellemare)
Robert Schumann: A Double Vision (John C. Tibbetts)
All That Jazz: George Gershwin, American Mythology and Rhapsody in Blue (1945) (Samuel J. Umland)
Elgar and Delius (Nesta Jones)
Picturing the Composer (Gary Yershon)
About the Contributors
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 12.06.2018 |
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Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7864-9965-6 / 0786499656 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7864-9965-6 / 9780786499656 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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