Crucible Bodies (A Postwar Japanese Performance from Brecht to the New Millennium)

Title: Crucible Bodies (A Postwar Japanese Performance from Brecht to the New Millennium)
Author: Uchino, Tadashi
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\"Crucible Bodies\" is one of the first full-length studies of Japanese performance culture. It covers a wide range of historical and theoretical topics, from Brecht in Japan to 'children's' bodies in postmodern Japanese performances, from the notion of beauty in contemporary cultural theory to practical and theoretical readings of more recent intercultural performances, involving not only Japanese but also other Asian theatre practitioners.

CONTENTS
1. Political Displacements: Toward Historicizing Brecht in Japan, 1932-1998
2. Images of Armageddon: Japan's 1980's Theatre Culture

Interlude 1: \"Beauty\" in Modern and Postmodern Japan

3. Deconstructing \"Japaneseness\" Toward Articulating Locality and Hybridity in Contemporary Japanese Performance
4. Playing Betwixt and Between; Intercultural Performance in the age of Globalization

Interlude 2: Fictional Body vs. Junk Body: Thinking through Performing Body in Japan, or Why Greek Ancient Drama is Produced?

5. Post, Post-Modernism and Junk: Murakami Takashi and \"J\" Theatre
6. Globality's Children: The \"Child's Body\" as Strategy of Flatness in Performance

Interlude 3: Nationalism, Intra-nationalism: Re-imagining the Boundary

7. Zapping/Mapping \"J\" theatre
8. Miyazawa Akio after 9.11

Epilogue: Interculturalism Revisited after 9.11


AUTHOR
Tadashi Uchino is Professor of Performance Studies at the Department of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, University of Tokyo. Widely published in Japanese, he is also a contributing editor for TDR.

Publication date: 15/05/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781905422746
Publishing status: Last copy available