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- Title
Hitchcock and Von Trier: the Operatic Melancholia in Cinema.
- Authors
Wieczorek, Wojciech
- Abstract
The paper examines the usage of Richard Wagner's operatic inventions in 20th and 21stcentury cinema and its representation of melancholia and love. The text describes the philosophical ideas that drove Wagner to create Tristan and Isolde and new means of musical expression, which were later used in film music. The first part discusses the use of Wagner's music in 2011 Melancholia, while the latter studies his influence on Bernard Herrmann's score for Vertigo.
- Subjects
MELANCHOLY in music; WAGNER, Richard, 1813-1883; MUSICAL interpretation; MOTION picture music; MUSIC scores
- Publication
Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 2022, Issue 66, p83
- ISSN
2544-8234
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.19205/66.22.6