Cinema and opera have become intertwined in a variety of powerful and unusual ways. This book tells the story of this intersection, interprets how it occurred, and explores what happens when opera is projected onto the medium of film.
Cinema and opera have become intertwined in a variety of powerful and unusual ways. Vocal Apparitions 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-Friedlande…
"Cinema and opera have become intertwined in a variety of powerful and unusual ways. Vocal Apparitions tells the story of this fascinating intersection, interprets how it occurred, and explores what happens when opera is projected onto the medium of film."--Jacket.
"Cinema and opera have become intertwined in a variety of powerful and unusual ways. Vocal Apparitions tells the story of this fascinating intersection, interprets how it occurred, and explores what happens when opera is projected onto the medium of film."--Jacket
Focusing on 1940s films in which the female voice bears a marked formal presence, Sjogren demonstrates ways that the feminine is expressed and difference is sustained, arguing that these films capitalize on psychoanalytic, narratological and discursive contradictions to bring ou…