2002
Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds
Preface On This Book’s Arrangement: Genius and Kabbalah The Lustres Gnosticism: The Religion of Literature Introduction: What is Genius? Genius: A Personal Definition Keter [rtoc] Lustre 1: William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes, Michel de Montaigne, John Milton, Leo Tolstoy Lustre 2: Lucretius, Vergil, Saint Augustine, Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey Chaucer [/rtoc] Hokmah [rtoc] Lustre 3: The …
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Cinema’s Illusions, Opera’s Allure: The Operatic Impulse in Film
Preface Introduction Appropriation of Opera in Early Cinema Silent opera: DeMille’s Carmen D. W. Griffith as a Wagnerian Stage fright: Phantom of the Opera A life at the opera Synesthesia: Alexander Nevsky as opera The Film Score The leitmotif Titles music as operatic overture Cinema Gives Opera the Finger Casting opera in our teeth: Chaplin’s Carmen Attack of the anarchists: A …
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