10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HORSE OPERA»
Discover the use of
horse opera in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
horse opera and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Horse Opera: The Strange History of the 1930s Singing Cowboy
Hard hit by the depression, faced with the threat--and often the reality--of dispossession and dislocation, pressured to adapt to new ways of living, these small-town filmgoers saw their ambitions, fantasies, and desires embodied in the ...
2
Forgotten Tales of Texas
The term “horse opera” today usually refers to the era of the singing cowboy and
the movie serials of the 1930s. Silent film star William S. Hart is said to have
coined the term because certain musical interludes in these films featured the
singing ...
3
The Western Paradox: A Conservation Reader
A few amateur Freudians, notably Mr. Gershon Legman, professto findin horse
opera the same sadistically displaced sex they find in Mickey Spillane and
innumerable other data which they say establish the castrationof American
menby ...
Bernard DeVoto, Douglas Brinkley, Patricia Nelson Limerick, 2008
4
The Space
Opera Renaissance
Here is the origin and description of the term from the early dictionary of SF, the
Fancyclopedia II(1959): Space Opera ([coined by Wilson] Tucker) A hack science
-fiction story, a dressed-up Western; so called by analogy with "horse opera" for ...
David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer, 2007
5
Opera and the Golden West: The Past, Present, and Future of ...
The first large-scale grand opera on an American theme, it has never been
popular here, and the derisive phrase "horse opera" is an apt description of the
low esteem in which it is held by many. Belasco, courtesy of the Italian librettists,
is held ...
John Louis DiGaetani, Josef P. Sirefman, 1994
6
Operas in English: A Dictionary
rOsa, a hOrse Opera, opera in two acts by Louis Andriessen; libretto (Eng) by
Peter Greenaway. First performance November 20, 1994, Amsterdam,
Netherlands Opera, with Lyndon Terracini (Rosa), Marie Angel (Esmeralda), and
Miranda van ...
Margaret Ross Griffel, 2012
... anonymity for accounting purposes; it dates from the era of horse-drawn
transport when such feed was a convenient catch-all for the auditors. horse logs v
[Logging] to drag stranded logs back to the stream, using peavey hooks. horse
opera ...
8
The Black Hole of the Camera: The Films of Andy Warhol
... asexuals and homosexuals” who are turned on by their horses.45 In Horse,
Tavel literalizes the notion of the Western being a “horse opera” by having a
camp opera, Florence Foster Jenkins's rendition of the Faust Travesty, represent
culture ...
9
Echo Chambers: Figuring Voice in Modern Narrative
4 Further into the letter, he elaborates: "[the novel] can be regarded as a kind of
symphony, or in another way as a kind of opera — or even a horse opera. It is hot
music, a poem, a song, a tragedy, a farce, and so forth. It is superficial, profound,
...
10
Horse of a Different Color: A Tale of Breeding Geniuses, ...
Kaynell appeared unfazed by the passing one-rider posse, but her later frequent
and usually unexpected encounters with his stick-horse opera inevitably sent self
-conscious shivers up the little cowboy's spine. Though she once even ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HORSE OPERA»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
horse opera is used in the context of the following news items.
Horse opera Heaven Knows What is getting great reviews — except …
While I often hate being the contrarian asshole who gives a dissenting take on a movie that is acclaimed to the gills amongst my peers — you ... «Nashville Scene, Jul 15»
Great Conversations: James Coburn
... a Budd Boetticher-directed horse opera starring Randolph Scott. He then hit paydirt with his supporting role in the smash hit The Magnificent ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
'Ex Machina' gets under your skin
... the emotionally potent crime drama “Dead End,” with Humphrey Bogart; the involving horse opera “The Westerner,” starring Gary Cooper; the ... «Cherry Hill Courier Post, Jul 15»
The return of the Western
... it, nevertheless, appears as a picturesque backdrop time and again, and alongside the obligatory horse opera and gun elements, the katana ... «The Hindu, Jun 15»
Salvation of the Western
... it, nevertheless, appears as a picturesque backdrop time and again, and alongside the obligatory horse opera and gun elements, the katana ... «The Hindu, Jun 15»
In 'Haints Stay,' an edgy indie publisher takes on the bloody Old West
While the novel flouts most of the conventions of the traditional horse opera, the rewards of "Haints Stay" belong to the reader. Haints Stay. «Los Angeles Times, Jun 15»
A Glass Act: Singer/Songwriter and 'Sing Street' soundtrack curator …
Nothing is more relaxing than sitting down to a two-and-a-half-hour arse-numbing horse opera. I love all the gritty Sam Peckinpah and Sergio ... «The Irish Film Television Network, Jun 15»
Disneyland opens in 1955
Western-type stores and buildings - the marshal's office, the jail the general store and every other enterprise you've ever seen in a horse opera ... «New York Daily News, May 15»
Unauthorized Biography
When the western was the thing—every TV set in No Down Payment can be seen piping an interchangeable horse opera into the living ... «Artforum, May 15»
Bad Land: Road To Fury review
Paltrow directs with confidence, but what could have been a gripping sci-fi western instead emerges as a disappointingly dry horse opera. «Den Of Geek, Apr 15»
