Wagner and Cinema

SUMARIO. Foreword ; Nike Wagner // Introduction: Why Wagner and Cinema?: Tolkien was Wrong ; Jeongwon Joe // Part I: Wagner and the Silent Film / 1. Wagnerian Motives: Narrative Integration and the Development of Silent Film Accompaniment, 1908-1913 ; James Buhler / 2. Underscoring Drama, Picturing Music ; Peter Franklin / 3. The Life and Works of Richard Wagner (1913): Becce, Froelich, and Messter ; Paul Fryer / 4. Listening for Wagner in Fritz Lang's Die Niebelungen ; Adeline Mueller // Part II: Wagnerian Resonance in Film Scoring / 5. The Resonances of Wagnerian Opera and Nineteenth-Century Melodrama in the Film Scores of Max Steiner ; David Neumeyer / 6. Wagner's Influence on Gender Roles in Early Hollywood Film ; Eva Rieger / 7. The Penumbra of Wagner's Ombra in Two Science Fiction Films from 1951: The Thing from Another World and The Day the Earth Stood Still ; William H. Rosar // Part III: Wagner in Hollywood / 8. Soll ich lauschen?: Love-Death in Humoresque ; Marcia J. Citron / 9. Hollywood's German Fantasy: Ridley Scott's Gladiator ; Marc A. Weiner / 10. Reading Wagner in Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips (1944) ; Neil Lerner / 11. Piercing Wagner: The Ring in Golden Earrings ; Scott D. Paulin // Part IV: Wagner in German Cinema / 12. Wagner as Leitmotif: The New German Cinema and Beyond ; Roger Hillman / 13. The Power of Emotion: Wagner and Film ; Jeremy Tambling / 14. Wagner in East Germany: Joachim Herz's Der Fliegende Holländer (1964) ; Joy Haslam Calico // Part V: Wagner beyond the Soundtrack / 15. Nocturnal Wagner: The Cultural Survival of Tristan and Isolde in Hollywood ; Elisabeth Bronfen / 16. Ludwig's Wagner and Visconti's Ludwig ; Giorgio Biancoroso / 17. The Tristan Project: Time in Wagner and Viola ; Jeongwon Joe / 18. The Threshold of the Visible World: Wagner, Bill Viola, and Tristan ; Lawrence KramerPostlude: Looking for Richard: An Archival Search for Wagner ; Warren M. Sherk / Epilogue: Some Thoughts about Wagner and Cinema; Opera and Politics / Style and Reception ; Sander L. Gilman // Appendix: Interview with Bill Viola ; Jeongwon Joe // Filmography: Jeongwon Joe, Warren M. Sherk, and Scott D. Paulin with a postscript by Paulin // Index