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Denationalizing Identities
Denationalizing Identities
explores the relationship between performance and ideology
in the global Sinosphere. Wah Guan Lim's study of four
important diasporic director-playwrights-Gao Xingjian, Stan Lai
Sheng-chuan, Danny Yung Ning Tsun, and Kuo Pao Kun-shows the impact
of theater on ideas of \"Chineseness\" across China, Taiwan, Hong
Kong, and Singapore.
At the height of the Cold War, the \"Bamboo Curtain\" divided the
\"two Chinas\" across the Taiwan Strait. Meanwhile, Hong Kong
prepared for its handover to the People's Republic of China and
Singapore rethought Chinese education. As geopolitical tensions
imposed ethno-nationalist identities across the region, these four
dramatists wove together local, foreign, and Chinese elements in
their art, challenging mainland China's narrative of an inevitable
communist outcome. By performing cultural identities alternative to
the ones sanctioned by their own states, they debunked notions of a
unified Chineseness. Denationalizing Identities highlights
the key role theater and performance played in circulating people
and ideas across the Chinese-speaking world, well before
cross-strait relations began to thaw.
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Shakespeare, Brecht, and the intercultural sign
In Shakespeare, Brecht, and the Intercultural Sign renowned Brecht scholar Antony Tatlow uses drama to investigate cultural crossings and to show how intercultural readings or performances question the settled assumptions we bring to interpretations of familiar texts. Through a \"textual anthropology\" Tatlow examines the interplay between interpretations of Shakespeare and readings of Brecht, whose work he rereads in the light of theories of the social subject from Nietzsche to Derrida and in relation to East Asian culture, as well as practices within Chinese and Japanese theater that shape their versions of Shakespearean drama.
Reflecting on how, why, and to what effect knowledges and styles of performance pollinate across cultures, Tatlow demonstrates that the employment of one culture's material in the context of another defamiliarizes the conventions of representation in an act that facilitates access to what previously had been culturally repressed. By reading the intercultural, Tatlow shows, we are able not only to historicize the effects of those repressions that create a social unconscious but also gain access to what might otherwise have remained invisible.
This remarkable study will interest students of cultural interaction and aesthetics, as well as readers interested in theater, Shakespeare, Brecht, China, and Japan.
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America's Japan and Japan's performing arts : cultural mobility and exchange in New York, 1952-2011
\" America's Japan and Japan's Performing Arts studies the images and myths that have shaped the reception of Japan-related theater, music, and dance in the United States since the 1950s. Soon after World War II, visits by Japanese performing artists to the United States emerged as a significant category of American cultural-exchange initiatives aimed at helping establish and build friendly ties with Japan. Barbara E. Thornbury explores how \"Japan\" and \"Japanese culture\" have been constructed, reconstructed, and transformed in response to the hundreds of productions that have taken place over the past sixty years in New York, the main entry point and defining cultural nexus in the United States for the global touring market in the performing arts. Thornbury crosses disciplinary boundaries in her wide range of both primary sources and published scholarship, making the book of interest to students and scholars of performing arts studies, Japanese studies, and cultural studies\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Opera and the city : the politics of culture in Beijing, 1770-1900
In late imperial China, opera was an integral part of life and culture, shared across the social hierarchy. It is in this context that historian Andrea S. Goldman harnesses opera as a lens through which to examine urban cultural history.
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The fruit machine : twenty years of writings on queer cinema
For more than twenty years, film critic, teacher, activist, and fan Thomas Waugh has been writing about queer movies. As a member of the Jump Cut collective and contributor to the Toronto-based gay newspaper the Body Politic, he emerged in the late 1970s as a pioneer in gay film theory and criticism, and over the next two decades solidified his reputation as one of the most important and influential gay film critics. The Fruit Machine—a collection of Waugh's reviews and articles originally published in gay community tabloids, academic journals, and anthologies—charts the emergence and maturation of Waugh's critical sensibilities while lending an important historical perspective to the growth of film theory and criticism as well as queer moviemaking.
In this wide-ranging anthology Waugh touches on some of the great films of the gay canon, from Taxi zum Klo to Kiss of the Spider Woman. He also discusses obscure guilty pleasures like Born a Man . . . Let Me Die a Woman, unexpectedly rich movies like Porky's and Caligula, filmmakers such as Fassbinder and Eisenstein, and film personalities from Montgomery Clift to Patty Duke. Emerging from the gay liberation movement of the 1970s, Waugh traverses crises from censorship to AIDS, tackling mainstream potboilers along with art movies, documentaries, and avant-garde erotic videos. In these personal perspectives on the evolving cinematic landscape, his words oscillate from anger and passion to wry wit and irony. With fifty-nine rare film stills and personal photographs and an introduction by celebrated gay filmmaker John Greyson, this volume demonstrates that the movie camera has been the fruit machine par excellence.
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Indonesian postcolonial theatre : spectral genealogies and absent faces
Indonesian Postcolonial Theatre explores modern theatrical practices in Indonesia from a performance of Hamlet in the warehouses of Dutch Batavia to Ratna Sarumpaet's feminist Muslim Antigones. The book reveals patterns linking the colonial to the postcolonial eras that often conflict with the historical narratives of Indonesian nationalism.
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