Faculty Forum: Michael Klein, professor of music theory
“Lifting the Painted Veil: Cinematic Adaptation, Sound, and the Literary Imagination”
Musicologist Michael Klein examines scenes in two film adaptations of W. Somerset Maugham’s The Painted Veil to illustrate how sound contributes to the reinterpretation of the novel. As half of all films are adaptations of literary works, sizable research exists on literary adaptations which largely focuses on literary imagination and viewers responses to adaptations. Klein explores the impact of the sound worlds viewers want to hear for the works they have read, including the voices of the characters, sound effects, and an underscoring that usually signifies the film’s inner world.
This event is open to the public and part of AIR.
Arts Interdisciplinary Research (AIR) is a holistic research center and forum for creative and scholarly research across the arts that includes cutting-edge colloquia, exploratory seminars, lecture demonstrations, launches of research publications and creative works, reading groups, faculty talks, and stand-alone conferences initiated by the faculty of the Center for the Performing and Cinematic Arts.