PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Theresa, Rose
TI  - From Méphistophélès to Méliès. Spectacle and Narrative in Opera and Early Film
DP  - 2013 Mar 1
TA  - Iluminace
PG  - 25--37
VI  - 25
IP  - 1
IS  - 0862397X
AB  - The study demonstrates the connection between opera and early silent film, in which opera loses its audial component and lends its spectacularity and narrative procedures to film. The author focuses on the "cinematic" character of Gounod's opera Faust and Marguerite, which, according to the author, offers a specific combination of spectacle and narrative characteristic of the film medium.