Takarazuka : sexual politics and popular culture in modern Japan / Jennifer Robertson.

Author
Robertson, Jennifer, 1953- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1998.
Description
xvi, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    The all-female Takarazuka Revue is world-famous today for its rococo musical productions, including gender-bending love stories, torridly romantic liaisons in foreign settings, and fanatically devoted fans. But that is only a small part of its complicated and complicit performance history. In this sophisticated and historically grounded analysis, anthropologist Jennifer Robertson draws from over a decade of fieldwork and archival research to explore how the Revue illuminates discourses of sexual politics, nationalism, imperialism, and popular culture in twentieth-century Japan. The Revue was founded in 1913 as a novel counterpart to the all-male Kabuki theater. Tracing the contradictory meanings of Takarazuka productions over time, with special attention to the World War II period, Robertson illuminates the intricate web of relationships among managers, directors, actors, fans, and social critics, whose clashes and compromises textured the theater and the wider society in colorful and complex ways.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-264) and index.
    Contents
    • 1. Ambivalence and Popular Culture
    • 2. Staging Androgyny
    • 3. Performing Empire
    • 4. Fan Pathology
    • 5. Writing Fans.
    ISBN
    • 0520211502 ((alk. paper))
    • 9780520211506 ((alk. paper))
    • 0520211510 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780520211513 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 058505343X
    • 9780585053431
    LCCN
    97038671
    OCLC
    37731668
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