Jeongwon Joe is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Cincinnati. She is editor of Between Opera and Cinema (with Rose Theresa) and has published articles on Milos Forman's Amadeus, Philip Glass's La Belle et la Bête, David Lynch's Blue Velvet, Gérard Corbiau's Farinelli, and other works related to opera and film music.

Sander L. Gilman is Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Emory University. He is author of Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity; Multiculturalism and the Jews; Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery; Freud, Race, and Gender; and Jewish Self-Hatred: Anti-Semitism and the Hidden Language of the Jews.

Foreword by Tony Palmer

Introduction: Why Wagner and Cinema? Tolkien Was Wrong \ Jeongwon Joe

Part 1. 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 Nibelungen \ Adeline Mueller

Part 2. 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 3. 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 4. 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 H. Calico

Part 5. Wagner beyond the Soundtrack

15. Nocturnal Wagner: The Cultural Survival of Tristan und Isolde in Hollywood \ Elisabeth Bronfen

16. Ludwig's Wagner and Visconti's Ludwig \ Giorgio Biancorosso

17. The Tristan Project: Time in Wagner and Viola \ Jeongwon Joe

18. "The Threshold of the Visible World": Wagner, Bill Viola, and Tristan \ Lawrence Kramer

Postlude: 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

Interview with Bill Viola \ Jeongwon Joe

Filmography \ Jeongwon Joe, Warren M. Sherk, and Scott D. Paulin

List of Contributors

Index