Opera, Exoticism and Visual Culture

Editors Lee and Segal present readers with a collection of academic articles and essays that examine the evolving relationships between opera and a variety of developing visual cultures throughout the world. The eleven selections that make up the main body of the text come from an international group of contributors working in a variety of disciplines and are organized in five parts, covering operatic distances and cultural differences, exotic ladies and fin-de-siecle visual culture, performing the other, operatic exoticism in cinema, and directing opera. Naomi Seagal and Hyunseon Lee are faculty members of the University of London, UK. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Hyunseon Lee is Privatdozent in Modern German Literature and Media Studies at Siegen University and Research Associate at the Centre for Film Studies, SOAS, University of London. She is also guest lecturer of Korean Studies at Tubingen University. Her publications include the monograph Metamorphosen der Madame Butterfly. Interkulturelle Liebschaften zwischen Literatur, Oper und Film (2015) and the co-edited volumes Morderinnen (2013) and Akira Kurosawa und seine Zeit (2005). She has published various works on music theatre, film and media aesthetics, German literature and Korean culture. Her current research interests focus on the Cold War in cinema and literature (Korea/Germany), film and history.
Naomi Segal is Professorial Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. She is the author of seventy-nine articles and fourteen books on comparative literature, cultural studies, gender, psychoanalysis and the body. Her monographs include Consensuality (2009), Andre Gide: Pederasty & Pedagogy (1998), The Adulteress’s Child (1992), Narcissus and Echo (1988) and The Unintended Reader (1986, 2010). She is currently retranslating Anzieu’s Le Moi-peau and has two more monographs at the planning stage. She is a Chevalier dans l’ordre des Palmes academiques and a member of the Academia Europaea.