Remediating Opera
Crossing and Encounters Between Film and Music Studies
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edited by
- Chiara Casarin - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
- Laura Cesaro - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
Abstract
This volume explores the intersection of moving images and music, analysing the fascinating remediation mechanisms between these two artistic languages. In particular, it embraces the approach to temporality featuring The Future Contemporary book series by offering a journey across different periods and artistic productions. The aim is to highlight the creative possibilities that emerge from the observation of recurring elements in cinema and music over time. Moving from cutting-edge archival research focused mainly on Italian cinema and opera, the essays gathered in this volume address various levels of remediation occurring across media, genres, and semantics. Together, they propose a novel perspective on the often-overlooked connections between these two fields of cultural and artistic production. Pairing texts from musicology and film studies, the rich reflection resulting from this book offers an innovative critical toolkit that looks back at historical opera and film productions to gain access to the roots of contemporary musical and cinematic representations.
Keywords Levi • Maria Malibran • Italian Cinema • Bernardo Bertolucci • The Spiders’ Stratagem • Musical salon • Metagenre • Media archaeology of opera • Opera and cinema convergence • Bertolucci • David Raksin • Intermediality • Opera in film • Stardom • Vocalities • Il Marchese del Grillo • Charlie Chaplin • Visconti • Performance • Dialogism • Singer • Italian cinema • Biopic • Italian political cinema • Trace • Opera • Opera in cinema • Gender Identities • Mario Martone • Opera Film • COVID-19 and performing arts • Labour • Remediation • Derrida • Film music • Cultural Heritage • Intertextuality • Script
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-911-5 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-911-5 | Published Oct. 22, 2025 | Language en
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