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Takarazuka : sexual politics and popular culture in modern Japan / Jennifer Robertson.
Author
Robertson, Jennifer, 1953-
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Book
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English
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Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1998.
Description
xvi, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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GN635.J2 R62 1998
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Ethnology
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Japan
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Theater
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Japan
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Musicals
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Japan
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Popular culture
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Japan
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Sex role
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Japan
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Social structure
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Japan
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Japan
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Social life and customs
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Takarazuka Kagekidan
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Summary note
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.
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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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