Jeongwon Joe

Opera as Soundtrack (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Jeongwon Joe examines the role of opera as soundtrack by exploring the distinct effects opera produces in film, and what elements set opera apart from other types of soundtrack music, such as jazz or symphony. The author explores why opera tends to accompany poignant, pivotal scenes; she argues that when soundtracks employ opera excerpts, the pieces tend to appear at critical moments in the film, and are usually associated with the protagonists. The book focusses on the post-1970s, a period distinguished by an increase of opera excerpts on blockbuster film soundtracks.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317085478
• Artikelnr.: 45095892

Autorenporträt

Jeongwon Joe is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music. She is co-editor of Wagner and Cinema (2010) and Between Opera and Cinema (2002). She has published articles on Milos Forman's Amadeus, Philip Glass's La Belle et la bête, David Lynch's Blue Velvet, Gerard Corbiau's Farinelli, and other work related to opera and film music. Her current projects include a monograph, whose working title is Western Opera's Diaspora in Korea: During the Japanese Occupation (1910-1945). She has also served as a music consultant to Chan-wook Park, the director of Cannes award-winning films Oldboy (2004) and Thirst (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Prologue: tracing opera as soundtrack
Opera as geno-song
Opera in cinematic death
Opera in Woody Allen's Match Point
Is cinema's anxiety opera's envy?
Film divas: the problem and the power of singing women
Behind the discourse on the opera-cinema encounter: film, music criticism and the 'great divide' between modernism and postmodernism
Epilogue: an ethnographic postscript
Select bibliography
Index.