Between Opera and Cinema

SUMARIO. From Méphistophélès to Méliès : spectacle and narrative in opera and early film ; Rose Theresa / There ain't no sanity claus! The Marx Brothers at the opera ; Michal Grover-Friedlander / The tales of Hoffman : an instance of operality ; Lesley Stern / The cinematic body in the operatic theater : Philip Glass's La belle et la be^te ; Jeongwon Joe / Why does Hollywood like opera? ; Marc A. Weiner / Opera in film : sentiment and wit, feeling and knowing : The Shawshank redemption and Prizzi's honor ; Mary Hunter / Is there a text in this libido? Diva and the rhetoric of contemporary opera criticism ; David J. Levin / The elusive voice : absence and presence in Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's film Le nozze di Figaro ; Marcia J. Citron / Verdi in postwar Italian cinema ; Deborah Crisp and Roger Hillman / Chinese opera, global cinema, and the ontology of the person : Chen Kaige's Farewell my concubine ; Teri Silvio / Sounding out the operatic : Jacques Rivette's Noroît ; Mary M. Wiles.