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This book traces the origins of Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! (2001) to opera, employing a variety of theoretical frameworks to highlight their aesthetic and ideological correlation. Through intertextuality, allusions to opera are examined in terms of story, setting and character, while issues of social class, gender representation and orientalism are raised. Prominent examples from opera include Verdi's La Traviata, Puccini's La Bohème as well as 19th century French opera, such as works by Offenbach, Massenet and Gounod. Furthermore, the book explores how the formal elements of opera are translated into the film with a postmodern twist, thus enhancing the interplay between the two media. Moulin Rouge!'s theatricality and self-reflexivity renegotiate the tropes of stage performance, rendering the film a love letter to opera.
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Nina Triaridou has completed her undergraduate studies in English Language and Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) with a focus on postmodernism and feminism in film and media. She is currently pursuing an MA in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at the University of Vienna. She is a young podcast creator, with her podcast series ¿FemArt Echoes¿ on feminism and art having participated in international festivals, among them the 62nd Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Greece) and the 18th HollyShorts Film Festival (Los Angeles, USA). During 2022-23, she participated in the research project ¿Unraveling the Cocoon of Memory: Women¿s Narratives in a Fading World¿, a collaboration between Columbia University¿s SNFPHI and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki¿s LNR. Her love for diverse forms of art motivated her to adopt an interdisciplinary approach in her study of the aesthetic and ideological extensions of cultural texts. As an opera enthusiast and a film connoisseur, she was inspired to explore Baz Luhrmann¿s Moulin Rouge! from an intermedial perspective.
