1st Edition
Modernism and the Cult of Mountains: Music, Opera, Cinema
By Christopher Morris
Copyright 2012
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
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Adopting and transforming the Romantic fascination with mountains, modernism in the German-speaking lands claimed the Alps as a space both of resistance and of escape. This new 'cult of mountains' reacted to the symptoms and alienating forces associated with modern culture, defining and reinforcing models of subjectivity based on renewed wholeness and an aggressive attitude to physical and mental... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Across the Abyss: Tiefland on Stage; Chapter 2 Nature and Nostalgia: The Last Tone Poem; Chapter 3 Thoroughly Modern Mountains; Chapter 4 The Voice of the Glacier; Chapter 5 A Last Refuge: Tiefland on Screen; Chapter 6 Conclusion and Afterword;
Biography
Dr Christopher Morris is Lecturer in Music at University College Cork and teaches in the university's interdisciplinary programmes in film studies and digital arts. He has published widely on opera, new media and film music, including Reading Opera Between the Lines (2002). Current research projects include a critical analysis of opera on video and an investigation of contemporary staging practices in opera.
'Christopher Morris takes the cult of mountains as an unusual and fascinating point of view from which to consider anew some of the creative tensions at the core of German modernism, including such hotly debated themes as the place of the aesthetic in modernist thought and the role of music in early-twentieth-century German culture. This original and exciting book will interest not only musicologists, but also film scholars, cultural historians, and anyone interested in the relationship between art, culture and society.' Emanuele Senici, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy 'With Modernism and the cult of mountains, Christopher Morris provides a most interesting contribution both to the lively field of opera studies and to the investigation of German modernism.' Die Theaterforschung
