Frozen moments : writings on kabuki, 1966-2001 / Samuel L. Leiter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leiter, Samuel L.

Series:

Cornell East Asia series ; 111.

Cornell East Asia series ; 111

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kabuki.

Physical Description:

xx, 360 pages, : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University East Asia Program, [2002]

Contents:

I. Actors

Four Interviews with Kabuki Actors 11

Ichikawa Danjuro XI: A Life in Kabuki 32

Parallel Lives: Sir Henry Irving and Ichikawa Danjuro IX 44

II. Performance

The Frozen Moment: A Kabuki Technique 59

Keren: Spectacle and Trickery in Kabuki Acting 74

What Really Happens Backstage: A Nineteenth-Century Kabuki Document 92

Beautiful Cruelty: Suicide, Murder, Torture, and Combat on the Kabuki Stage 110

Female-Role Specialization in Kabuki: How Real is Real? 147

Kumagai Jinya: Form and Tradition in Kabuki Acting 157

Authentic Kabuki: American Style 183

Terakoya at Brooklyn College 193

III. Theatres

Suwa Haruo's "The Birth of the Hanamichi" 205

The Kanamaru-za: Japan's Oldest Kabuki Theatre 231

Gimme that Old-Time Kabuki: Japan's Rural Theatre Landscape 257

IV. History

From the London Patents to the Edo Sanza: A Partial Comparison of the British Stage and Kabuki, ca. 1650-1800 297.

Notes:

"This collection of fifteen essays was written over nearly four decades by one of America's best-known scholars of Japan's kabuki theatre"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-339) and index.

ISBN:

1885445415

OCLC:

53002140