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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