Format:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Edition:
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2014 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Edition:
Also issued in print
ISBN:
9781474210584
Series Statement:
War, culture and society
Content:
"Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan examines how the performing arts, and the performing body specifically, have shaped and been shaped by the political and historical conditions experienced in Japan during the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. This study of original and secondary materials from the fields of theatre, dance, performance art, film and poetry, probes the interrelationship that exists between the body and the nation-state. Important artistic works, such as Ankoku Butoh (dance of darkness) and its subsequent re-interpretation by a leading political performance company Gekidan Kaitaisha (theatre of deconstruction), are analysed using ethnographic, historical and theoretical modes. This approach reveals the nuanced and prolonged effects of military, cultural and political occupation in Japan over a duration of dramatic change. Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan explores issues of discrimination, marginality, trauma, memory and the mediation of history in a ground-breaking work that will be of great significance to anyone interested in the symbiosis of culture and conflict."--
Content:
Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- 1. Occupied Bodies: Aesthetic Responses in New Japan -- 2. Ankoku Butoh in Socio-Historic Context -- 3. Ankoku Butoh: (Not) A Dance of the Nation State -- 4. Gekidan Kaitaisha: Growing the Seeds of Butoh -- 5. Occupied Bodies in the 21st Century: Vivisection Vision-Animal Reflections -- Conclusion.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also issued in print.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781780935966
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781780935874
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781780935973
Additional Edition:
Available in another form
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781474210584
