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Film's ghosts : Tatsumi Hijikata's Butoh and the Transmutation of 1960s Japan / Stephen Barber.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barber, Stephen, 1961- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hijikata, Tatsumi, 1928-1986.
- Hijikata, Tatsumi.
- Hijikata, Tatsumi, -- 1928-1986--Criticism and interpretation.
- Hijikata, Tatsumi, -- 1928-1986 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Zurich : Diaphanes, [2019]
- Summary:
- Tokyo during the 1960s was in a state of uproar, full of protests, riots, and insurrection.Tatsumi Hijikata--the initiator of the "Butoh" performance art and the seminal figure in Japan's experimental arts culture of the 1960s--created his most famous works in the context of that turmoil, his experimental film projects and his horror and erotic.
- Contents:
- Film's Ghosts
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Part One. Conjuring Hijikata's Ghosts in Film: Human Sacrifice and Wargames
- Part Two. Motion Photography: Kamaitachi
- Part Three: Tokyo's Transmutation, Hijikata's Dance
- Part Four. Horrors, Deaths, Revolutions
- Part Five. 1970: Hijikata at Osaka's World Expo
- Coda. Film and the Dying Dance
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 3-0358-0168-1
- OCLC:
- 1089445387
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