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Author Broinowski, Adam

Title Cultural responses to occupation in Japan : the performing body during and after the Cold War / Adam Broinowski
Published London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series War, culture and society
War, culture and society.
Contents Introduction -- 1. Occupied Bodies: Aesthetic Responses in New Japan -- 2. Ankoku Butoh in Socio-Historic Context -- 3. Ankoku Butoh: (Not) A Dance of the Nation State -- 4. Gekidan Kaitaisha: Growing the Seeds of Butoh -- 5. Occupied Bodies in the 21st Century: Vivisection Vision-Animal Reflections -- Conclusion
Summary "Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan examines how the performing arts, and the performing body specifically, have shaped and been shaped by the political and historical conditions experienced in Japan during the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. This study of original and secondary materials from the fields of theatre, dance, performance art, film and poetry, probes the interrelationship that exists between the body and the nation-state. Important artistic works, such as Ankoku Butoh (dance of darkness) and its subsequent re-interpretation by a leading political performance company Gekidan Kaitaisha (theatre of deconstruction), are analysed using ethnographic, historical and theoretical modes. This approach reveals the nuanced and prolonged effects of military, cultural and political occupation in Japan over a duration of dramatic change. Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan explores issues of discrimination, marginality, trauma, memory and the mediation of history in a ground-breaking work that will be of great significance to anyone interested in the symbiosis of culture and conflict"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
In Bloomsbury Cultural History. Bloomsbury Publishing
Subject Performing arts -- Political aspects -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
Politics and culture -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
The Cold War.
Military history.
Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th century.
HISTORY -- Military -- General.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
Performing arts -- Political aspects
Politics and culture
Japan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2015024497
ISBN 9781780935874
1780935870
1780935978
9781780935973
9781474210584
1474210589
9781350042094
1350042099