Opera as Hypermedium

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Opera as Hypermedium is written by Tereza Havelková and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190091282 (ISBN 10) and 9780190091286 (ISBN 13).

Drawing on the concept of hypermediacy from media studies, this book situates opera within the larger context of contemporary media practices, and particularly those that play up the multiplicity, awareness and enjoyment of media. It is driven by the underlying question of what politics of representation and perception opera performs within this context. This entails approaching operas as audiovisual events and paying attention to the various effects of immediacy that they produce.