UID:
almafu_9960117545402883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xli, 550 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-316-39370-4
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1-316-39694-0
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1-139-52533-6
Inhalt:
Japan boasts one of the world's oldest, most vibrant and most influential performance traditions. This accessible and complete history provides a comprehensive overview of Japanese theatre and its continuing global influence. Written by eminent international scholars, it spans the full range of dance-theatre genres over the past fifteen hundred years, including noh theatre, bunraku puppet theatre, kabuki theatre, shingeki modern theatre, rakugo storytelling, vanguard butoh dance and media experimentation. The first part addresses traditional genres, their historical trajectories and performance conventions. Part II covers the spectrum of new genres since Meiji (1868-), and Parts III to VI provide discussions of playwriting, architecture, Shakespeare, and interculturalism, situating Japanese elements within their global theatrical context. Beautifully illustrated with photographs and prints, this history features interviews with key modern directors, an overview of historical scholarship in English and Japanese, and a timeline. A further reading list covers a range of multimedia resources to encourage further explorations.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jul 2016).
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Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Expanded table of contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Contributors -- Contributors' biographies -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Japanese terms -- List of abbreviations -- Timeline -- Editor's introduction -- I Traditional theatres -- Preface to Part I Japanese civilization arises -- 1 Ancient and early medieval performing arts -- Interlude Katari narrative traditions: from storytelling to theatre -- 2 Noh and Muromachi culture -- Interlude Noh and kyogen costumes and masks -- 3 Kyogen: classical comedy -- Interlude Iemoto: the family head system -- 4 Kabuki: superheroes and femmes fatales -- Interlude Nihonbuyo: classical dance -- Interlude Okinawan theatre: boundary of Japanese theatre -- 5 Bunraku: puppet theatre -- Interlude Misemono and rakugo: sideshows and storytelling -- Interlude Kamigata geino: Kyoto-Osaka style -- Interlude Traditional theatre tomorrow: interview with Takemoto Mikio -- II Modern theatres -- Preface to Part II -- 6 Birth of modern theatre: shimpa and shingeki -- Interlude Modern comedies and early musicals -- Interlude Takarazuka: all-girls' revue and musicals -- 7 Rise of shingeki: Western-style theatre -- Interlude Manzai and Yoshimoto vaudeville comedy -- 8 Wartime colonial and traditional theatre -- Interlude Kami-shibai: picture-card storytelling -- 9 Maturing shingeki theatre -- Interlude Postwar musicals and commercial theatre -- 10 Sixties Theatre -- Interlude Butoh: dance of darkness and light -- 11 Contemporary theatre -- Interlude Tokyo: world theatre capital -- Interlude Charting Tokyo theatre today: 24 November 2012 -- Interlude Modern theatre tomorrow: interview with Oriza Hirata -- III Arcs and patterns -- 12 Premodern playwriting practices -- 13 Traditional meta-patterns -- 14 Modern plays as literature.
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15 Modern meta-patterns -- Interlude Dojoji: The lady and the bell -- IV Theatre architecture -- Preface to Part IV Evolution of Japanese theatre architecture -- 16 Premodern patterns of spectatorship and space -- 17 Modernization of theatrical space, 1868-1940 -- 18 Postwar theatres: development and diversification -- Interlude National theatres and funding -- V Theatre criticism -- 19 Premodern practitioner principles: Zeami to Chikamatsu -- 20 Modern criticism: wrestling with Western realism -- 21 English language scholarship: a critical overview -- Interlude University scholarship and training -- VI Intercultural influences -- 22 Seven stages of Shakespeare reception -- 23 Traditional training internationally -- 24 Intercultural theatre: fortuitous encounters -- Interlude Early influence from Europe -- Interlude Asian energy versus European rationality: interview with Ninagawa Yukio -- Epilogue: Frozen words and mythology -- Further reading -- Index.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-107-03424-8
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Allgemeines
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139525336
