Modernism and the Cult of Mountains: Music, Opera, Cinema

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.

• 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;

'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