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Japanese theatre and the international stage / edited by Stanca Scholz-Cionca and Samuel L. Leiter.

Van Pelt Library PN2924 .J37 2001
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Scholz-Cionca, Stanca.
Leiter, Samuel L.
Series:
Brill's Japanese studies library 0925-6512 ; v. 12.
Brill's Japanese studies library, 0925-6512 ; v. 12
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Theater--Japan--History--20th century--Congresses.
Theater.
Performing arts--Japan--History--20th century--Congresses.
Performing arts.
Japanese drama--20th century--History and criticism--Congresses.
Japanese drama.
History.
Japan.
Genre:
Conference papers and proceedings.
Physical Description:
xiv, 464 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Place of Publication:
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001.
Contents:
Part 1 The Infancy of Reception
The Reception of Japanese Theatre by the European Avant-Garde (1900-1930) / Erika Fischer-Lichte 27
The French Discovery of Traditional Japanese Theatre / Jean-Jacques Tschudin 43
When Theatre Arts Looked Eastward: Japan's Reception in America's Leading Theatre Periodical (1916-64) / Samuel L. Leiter 59
Part 2 Folk and Traditional Theatre: At Home and Abroad
Ritual and Acting in Shishimai: The "Black Lion" of Nagai/Yamagata / Guenter Zobel 81
Japanese Folk Performing Arts Today: The Politics of Promotion and Preservation / William Lee 97
Zeami's Mysterious Flower: The Challenge of Interpreting it in Western Terms / Benito Ortolani 113
Naturalizing No: Interpreting the Waki as the Representative of the Audience / Ruxandra Marginean 133
Twofold Structure in No Expression / Haruo Nishino 149
Western Audiences and the Emergent Reorientation of Meiji No / Shinko Kagaya 161
Performance and Text in Kabuki / James R. Brandon 177
Undressing the Onnagata: Kabuki's Female Role Specialists and the Art of Costuming / Katherine Mezur 193
The View from Japan: The Traditional Performing Arts as Cultural Ambassadors Abroad / Barbara E. Thornbury 213
Part 3 Japan Embraces the Modern
Tabi Shibai: Popular Theatre in Context / Christina Nygren 231
The Men of Our Dreams: The Role of the Otokoyaku in the Takarazuka Revue Company's Fantasy Adventure / Helen S. Parker 241
Antonin Artaud's Influence on Terayama Shuji / Keiko Courdy 255
Freaks, Fags, Foreigners, and Females: Cultural Outlaws in the Plays of Terayama Shuji / Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei 269
Kishida Rio's Wasurenagusa (Forget-Me-Not): A Japanese Version of Frank Wedekind's Lulu / Yasuko Ikeuchi 285
With a Nod to Chekhov: Strategies of Dream and Memory in the Dramas of Shimizu Kunio / J. Thomas Rimer 299
The Body and the Problematics of Representation in the Theatre of Gekidan Kataisha / Peter Eckersall 313
Body of Light: The Way of the Buto Performer / Maria Pia D'Orazi 329
Concerned Theatre Japan Thirty Years Later: A Personal Account / David G. Goodman 343
Part 4 The West Embraces Japan
Thinking and Feeling: Characteristics of Intercultural Theatre / Mitsuya Mori 357
No in Disguise: Robert Wilson's Adaptation of No Elements in his Productions of Alkestis/Alceste / Hans-Peter Bayerdorfer 367
An Experiment in Fusion: Traditional Japanese Theatre and Modern Productions of Agamemnon and Macbeth / Zvika Serper 385
The One Pointed Mind: Japanese Influences on Contemporary Actor Training in the United States / Barbara Sellers-Young 397.
Notes:
Chiefly papers presented at a symposium, held May 20-22, 1998 in Munich.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [419]-441) and index.
ISBN:
9004120114
OCLC:
44885199

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