Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation

Auteur(s) : Havelková, Tereza  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : Opera as hypermedium [Texte imprimé] : meaning-making, immediacy, and the politics of perception / Tereza Havelková

Publication : New York (NY) : Oxford University Press, copyright 2021

Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-186 pages) : illustrations ; 25 cm

Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"This book deals with contemporary relationships between opera and the media. It is concerned with both, the use of media on stage, and opera on screen. Drawing on the concept of hypermediacy from media studies, it situates opera within the larger context of contemporary media practices, and particularly those that play up the multiplicity, awareness and enjoyment of media. The discussion is driven by the underlying question of what politics of representation and perception opera performs within this context. This entails approaching operas as audiovisual events (rather than works or texts) and paying attention to what they do by visual means, along with the operatic music and singing. The book concentrates on events that foreground their use of media and technology, drawing attention to opera's inherently hypermedial aspects. It works with the recognition that such events nevertheless engender powerful effects of immediacy, which are not contingent on illusionism or the seeming transparency of the medium. It analyzes how effects like presence, liveness and immersion are produced, contesting some critical claims attached to them. It also sheds light on how these effects, often perceived as visceral or material in nature, are related to the production of meaning in opera. The discussion pertains to contemporary pieces such as Louis Andriessen and Peter Greenaway's Rosa and Writing to Vermeer, as well as productions of the canonical repertory such as Wagner's Ring Cycle by Robert Lepage at the Met and La Fura dels Baus in Valencia"

Sujet(s) : Opéra  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Esthétique musicale  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780190091262. - ISBN 0190091266. - ISBN 9780190091286 (erroné) (rel.)

Identifiant de la notice  : ark:/12148/cb46773700m

Notice n° :  FRBNF46773700 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)

Table des matières : Introduction. Theorizing Opera as Hypermedium ; Allegory and Excess : Reading Hypermedial Opera ; Theatricality and Absorption : Listening for a Point of Experience ; Liveness and Mediatization : (De)constructing Dichotomies ; Synaesthesia or Anaesthesia? Towards a Politics of Hypermedial Opera.