Title: Tito Schipa, Italian Film Sound, and Opera’s Legacy on Screen
Abstract:Abstract This chapter examines the film career of tenor Tito Schipa to demonstrate the value of the idea of opera in the construction of the Italian postsynchronous soundtrack. A singer born in southe...Abstract This chapter examines the film career of tenor Tito Schipa to demonstrate the value of the idea of opera in the construction of the Italian postsynchronous soundtrack. A singer born in southern Italy who lived in the United States, was liked by Mussolini, and adored the cinema, Schipa was positioned to lend both cultural significance and star power to the Italian cinema during a period of transformation. At the beginning of the 1930s opera was heard not only in films starring opera singers, but also throughout the Italian soundtrack. Although widely known opera arias provided cultural cues in American films, in Italy they also served narrative functions and contributed to the fascist government’s strategy of building a national culture, a project that had important implications for the dubbed Italian heard on film. The role of dubbing in Italian cinema must be understood alongside opera’s history on screen.Read More
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-01-19
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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