Takarazuka Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan

Name: Takarazuka Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan
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ISBN: 9780520211513

ISBN-10: 0520211510

ISBN-13: 9780520211513

Edition: 1998

Authors: Jennifer Robertson

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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…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 7/21/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.034



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Ambivalence and Popular Culture



Staging Androgyny



Performing Empire



Fan Pathology



Writing Fans


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index