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 Labour • Intertextuality • Media archaeology of opera • Intermediality • Charlie Chaplin • Bertolucci • Visconti • The Spiders’ Stratagem • Performance • Biopic • Opera and cinema convergence • Musical salon • Stardom • Metagenre • Gender Identities • Opera Film • Italian Cinema • Italian cinema • Singer • Trace • Cultural Heritage • Derrida • Bernardo Bertolucci • Opera in film • Il Marchese del Grillo • Levi • Maria Malibran • David Raksin • Remediation • Dialogism • Script • Opera in cinema • Opera • COVID-19 and performing arts • Vocalities • Film music • Mario Martone • Italian political cinema
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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