Cantitate/Preț
Produs

Opera as Hypermedium: Meaning-Making, Immediacy, and the Politics of Perception

Autor Tereza Havelková
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 apr 2021
Drawing on the concept of hypermediacy from media studies, this book situates opera within the larger context of contemporary media practices, and particularly those that play up the multiplicity, awareness and enjoyment of media. It 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.
Citește tot Restrânge

Preț: 48280 lei

Preț vechi: 52983 lei
-9% Nou

Puncte Express: 724

Preț estimativ în valută:
9240 9598$ 7675£

Carte disponibilă

Livrare economică 03-09 ianuarie 25

Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190091262
ISBN-10: 0190091266
Pagini: 200
Ilustrații: 17 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 236 x 155 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

Her book contributes many inspiring ideas to the discussion of contemporary opera staging and the meaning-making process, especially if it is approached as a point of human experience, as an (performative) event ... Havelková also sums up crucial, insightful and (still) up to date approaches to opera, theatre, media, and technology in the context of culture ... Havelková's book is a significant contribution
Havelková fulfilled her aim not to map out an exemplary repertory of contemporary hypermadial opera, but rather to chart the theoretical terrain of opera as hypermedium.
Starting from the premise that opera is always already a hypermediated art form, this is a very timely examination of the use of new media in operatic production to unsettle the established media hierarchies of opera. The investigation employs considerable theoretical sophistication to offer new ways of thinking critically and politically about the implications of new media for the forms of opera today, positing a 'politics of perception' beyond the more familiar politics of representation.

Notă biografică

Tereza Havelková is Assistant Professor in musicology at Charles University in Prague. Her research concentrates on contemporary relationships between opera and the media, and the intersection of aesthetics and politics in opera and music theatre both present and past. She is the co-convenor of the Music Theatre Working Group with the International Federation for Theatre Research.