Opera, Exoticism and Visual Culture.
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Opera, Exoticism and Visual Culture.
Yazar:
Lee, Hyunseon.
ISBN:
9783035306590
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (305 pages)
Seri:
Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship Between the Arts ; v.34
Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship Between the Arts
İçerik:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction (Hyunseon Lee) -- Part I. Confronting Distant Cultures: Operatic Distances and Differences -- Caught in Transition: Exoticism in Gaspare Spontini's "Fernand Cortès" (Maria Birbili) -- Bibliography -- Daniel Catán's Butterflies -- or, The Opera House in the Jungle (Roberto Ignacio Díaz) -- Bibliography -- The Reversal of Exoticism: Ahmed Essyad's "Le Collier des Ruses" ["The Necklace of Tricks"] (Hervé Lacombe) -- Bibliography -- Part II. Exotic Ladies and "Fin-de-Siècle" Visual Culture -- Eroticizing Antiquity: Madame Mariquita, Régina Badet and the Dance of the Exotic Greeks from Stage to Popular Press (Samuel N. Dorf) -- Bibliography -- Loïe Fuller and Salome: The Unveiling of a Myth (Clair Rowden) -- Bibliography -- The Kawakami Troupe in Early Twentieth-Century Europe in the Context of Media History (Yûji Nawata) -- Bibliography -- Part III. Performing the Other -- Global Butterfly: Visual Exoticism, or its Reversal, in Silent Film and Opera Performances (Hyunseon Lee) -- 'Operatic' Dimensions of Visual Exoticism: "Madama Butterfly" -- Cinematic Butterfly -- Reverse Exoticism: Robert Wilson and Anthony Minghella, and Saegusa Shigeaki's "Junior Butterfly" -- Bibliography -- Scandalizing Orientalism: The "Aida" Productions by Hans Neuenfels (1981) and Peter Konwitschny (1994) (Erika Fischer-Lichte) -- Bibliography -- Performing the Icon: The Body on Stage and the Staged Body in Salome's 'Dance of the Seven Veils' (Hedda Høgåsen-Hallesby) -- Bibliography -- Part IV. Operatic Exoticism in Cinema -- Affirmation and Resistance: Operatic Exoticism on Film (Marcia J. Citron) -- Bibliography -- The Fatal Attraction of Madame Butterfly (Naomi Segal) -- Bibliography -- Part V. Epilogue: Directing Opera -- Subsequent Performances (Sir Jonathan Miller) -- How I Got into Theatre -- And then Opera.
The Afterlife of Operas -- Conceptualism in Opera and Theatre -- Pretending/Practical Joking as a Directing Style -- Transposition/Correspondence -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
Özet:
As a uniquely hybrid form of artistic output, straddling music and theatre and high and popular culture, opera offers vast research possibilities not only in the field of music studies but also in the fields of media and cultural studies. Using the exotic legacy of the fin-de-siècle as its primary lens, this volume explores the shifting relationships between the multimedia genre of opera and the rapidly changing world of visual cultures. It also examines the changing aesthetics of opera in composition and performance and historical (dis)continuity, including the postcolonial era. The book comprises eleven interdisciplinary essays by scholars from eight countries, researching in music, theatre, literature, film and media studies, as well as a special contribution by opera director Sir Jonathan Miller. The book begins with an examination of operatic exoticism in various cultural contexts, such as French, Latin American and Arabic culture. The next sections focus on the most beloved figures in opera performance - Salome, Madame Butterfly and Aida - and performances of these operas through history. Further interpretations of the operas in film and new media are then considered. In the final section, Sir Jonathan Miller reflects on the 'afterlife' of opera.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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