Continuum
Marat/Sade / The Investigation / The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman
Introduction Robert Cohen Chronology
Shakespeare in Japan
Preface Part 1: Adaptations and Translations Shakespeare and Traditional Japanese Theatre: Tsubouchi Shoyo Shakespeare in Japanese (I): Fukuda Tsuneari Shakespeare in Japanese (II): Kinoshita Junji Part 2: Productions and Creative Critiques Shakespeare and the Japanese Stage Shakespeare and Japanese Literature Shakespeare and Japanese Film: Kurosawa Akira Further reading
Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation
Preface Part I: Aesthetics 1: Introduction 2: Sounds 3: Wittgenstein on music 4: Movement 5: Expression 6: Rhythm Part II: Criticism 7: My Mozart 8: Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony 9: The trial of Richard Wagner 10: A first shot at The Ring 11: True authority: Janacek, Schoenberg and us 12: Thoughts on Szymanowski 13: Why read …
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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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