Between Opera and Cinema

Discussing diverse works -- from the Marx Brothers' irreverent A Night at the Opera to the moving Chinese-language film Farewell My Concubine -- leading scholars of opera and film explore the many ways these two seemingly unrelated genres have come together, from the silent-film era to today. Filmmakers have been fascinated with opera since the earliest days of silent film, and the many adaptations of opera for the screen underscore both the affinities and differences between these two media. Despite the century-long. mutual attraction between opera and cinema, there are but a handful of book-length studies devoted to the topic. By offering a mapping out of some of the richly ambivalent spaces between the two forms of representation, this volume stimulates more dialogue within and beyond the growing community of opera cinema studies. This book will make for fascinating reading for fans of both genres. Book jacket.

Jeongwon Joe is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Nevada, Reno Rose Theresa teaches music history at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro