{"product_id":"vocal-apparitions-the-attraction-of-cinema-to-opera-9780691120089","title":"Vocal Apparitions: The Attraction of Cinema to Opera","description":"\u003cp\u003eCinema and opera have become intertwined in a variety of powerful and unusual ways. \u003ci\u003eVocal Apparitions\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of this fascinating intersection, interprets how it occurred, and explores what happens when opera is projected onto the medium of film. Michal Grover-Friedlander finds striking affinities between film and opera--from Lon Chaney's classic silent film, \u003ci\u003eThe Phantom of the Opera\u003c\/i\u003e, to the Marx Brothers' \u003ci\u003eA Night at the Opera to Fellini's E la nave va\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e One of the guiding questions of this book is what occurs when what is aesthetically essential about one medium is transposed into the aesthetic field of the other. For example, Grover-Friedlander's comparison of an opera by Poulenc and a Rossellini film, both based on Cocteau's play \u003ci\u003eThe Human Voice\u003c\/i\u003e, shows the relation of the vocal and the visual to be surprisingly affected by the choice of the medium. Her analysis of the Marx Brothers' \u003ci\u003eA Night\u003c\/i\u003e at the Opera demonstrates how, as a response to opera's infatuation with death, cinema comically acts out a correction of opera's fate. Grover-Friedlander argues that filmed operas such as Zeffirelli's Otello and Friedrich's Falstaff show the impossibility of a direct transformation of the operatic into the cinematic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Paradoxically, cinema at times can be more operatic than opera itself, thus capturing something essential that escapes opera's self-understanding. A remarkable look at how cinema has been haunted--and transformed--by opera, \u003ci\u003eVocal Apparitions\u003c\/i\u003e reveals something original and important about each medium.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michal Grover-Friedlander\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/27\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.54h x 6.48w x 0.78d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691120089\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichal Grover-Friedlander\u003c\/b\u003e teaches in the Musicology Department and the Interdisciplinary Program in the Arts at Tel Aviv University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40747477237875,"sku":"9.78069E+12","price":102.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_7ffc02aa-a340-4616-a225-5c1799566d8c.jpg?v=1678201089","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/vocal-apparitions-the-attraction-of-cinema-to-opera-9780691120089","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}