Opera as Soundtrack

Rezensionen / Stimmen

'This book is a fascinating investigation into the productive frictions between opera and cinema: death, murder, divas, cinema's effect on opera performances, and opera in the context of the compilation score. Joe's concept of the "geno-song" in particular is key in soundtrack studies.'

Phil Powrie, University of Surrey, UK

'Combining an engagement with a wide range of theoretical approaches with well-chosen case studies, Jeongwon Joe's Opera as Soundtrack will appeal to students of both opera and film music. She explores a variety of operatic tropes in American, European, and Asian film, which cluster particularly around love and death (of course!), and often get entangled in the "problem" of women's voices, and of women who sing. Joe posits that film's persistent obsession with and anxiety about opera might just be matched by opera's envy of this upstart art.'

Robynn Stilwell, Georgetown University, USA

'Recommended.'

-Choice

'Opera as soundtrack offre al lettore numerosi spunti di riflessione e di approfondimento grazie anche alla aggiornatissima bibliografia che spazia, ovviamente, dalla storia del cinema a quella dell'opera. Si tratta comunque di un libro di livello universitario o addirittura post-universitario ... ma che potra dare soddisfazione sia ai melomani sia agli amanti della settima arte.' ['Opera as Soundtrack offers the reader much food for thought and more in-depth study thanks also to its extremely up-to-date bibliography which ranges ... from the history of cinema to that of opera. This is a book for university level or even post-graduate study ... that will also satisfy both opera fans and lovers of The Seventh Art.'] Operaclick