Introduction: Why Wagner and cinema? Tolkien was wrong / Jeongwon Joe
Part 1. Wagner and the silent film. Wagnerian motives : narrative integration and the development of silent film accompaniment, 1908-1913 / James Buhler ; Underscoring drama
picturing music / Peter Franklin ; The life and works of Richard Wagner (1913) : Becce, Froelich, and Messter / Paul Fryer ; Listening for Wagner in Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen / Adeline Mueller
Part 2. Wagnerian resonance in film scoring ; The resonances of Wagnerian opera and nineteenth-century melodrama in the film scores of Max Steiner / David Neumeyer ; Wagner's influence on gender roles in early Hollywood film / Eva Rieger ; 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. "Soll ich lauschen?" : love-death in Humoresque / Marcia J. Citron ; Hollywood's German fantasy: Ridley Scott's Gladiator / Marc A. Weiner ; Reading Wagner in Bugs Bunny nips the nips (1944) / Neil Lerner ; Piercing Wagner: The Ring in Golden earrings / Scott D. Paulin
Part 4. Wagner in German cinema. Wagner as leitmotif: the new German cinema and beyond / Roger Hillman ; The power of emotion: Wagner and film / Jeremy Tambling ; Wagner in East Germany: Joachim Herz's Der fliegende Holländer (1964) / Joy H. Calico
Part 5. Wagner beyond the soundtrack. Nocturnal Wagner: the cultural survival of Tristan und Isolde in Hollywood / Elisabeth Bronfen ; Ludwig's Wagner and Visconti's Ludwig / Giorgio Biancorosso ; The Tristan Project: time in Wagner and Viola / Jeongwon Joe ; "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.
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