Contemporary Japanese Women's Theatre and Visual Arts: Performing Girls' Aesthetics

ISBN-13: 9781137372970 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 229 str.

Nobuko Anan

Opis

Nobuko Anan explores what she calls 'girls' aesthetics'-the resistance to female material bodies-in Contemporary Japanese Women's Theatre and Visual Arts: Performing Girls' Aesthetics. By engaging with a wide range of theatre, dance, and visual arts (including installation arts and girls' manga) by artists and groups such as Yubiwa Hotel, Kisaragi Koharu, Yanagi Miwa, Hagio Moto, Studio Life, Kishida Rio, Ikeda Riyoko, the Takarazuka Revue, and KATHY, the book addresses four aspects of girls' aesthetics: time and space, two-dimensionality, issues of citizenship, and the love-and-hate relationship with the 'West.' It also situates these aesthetics within a history of Japanese society, performance, and visual arts, and particularly examines the intersections of the aesthetics and the post-war Japan-US relationship, the violent 1960s leftist movements, and the 1970s feminist activism. Girls' aesthetics provide another approach to feminist studies in performance and visual arts.

Recenzje

"Nobuko Anan's Contemporary Japanese Women's Theatre and Visual Arts joins a fleet of scholarly books published in the last several decades on Japanese girls' culture. Solidly researched, this study integrates Japanese, European, and American scholarship, combining in-depth analysis of specific theatre works and theoretical concepts as well as historical overviews. It enhances our understanding of Japanese performance since the 1970s and is a welcome addition to the field." (Ayako Kano, Theatre Journal, Vol. 59 (4), December, 2017)

O autorze

Nobuko Anan is Lecturer in Film, Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. She has published articles on Japanese women's performance and visual arts in anthologies and journals such as TDR and Theatre Research International. She received her PhD from Theatre and Performance at University of California Los Angeles, USA.