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Kabuki's Forgotten War : 1931-1945 /
According to a myth constructed after Japan's surrender to the Allied Forces in 1945, kabuki was a pure, classical art form with no real place in modern Japanese society. In Kabuki's Forgotten War, senior theater scholar James R. Brandon calls this view into question and makes a compelling...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaii Press,
[2008]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1: Kabuki's Foreign Adventure: 1931-1939
- Chapter One. Prelude to War
- Chapter Two. Kabuki and the Manchurian and Shanghai Incidents 1931-1934
- Chapter Three. Kabuki and the Marco Polo Bridge Incident 1937-1938
- Chapter Four .The Darkening Storm 1939
- Part 2: Fruits of Victory: 1940-1942
- Chapter Five. Kabuki and 2,600 Years of Imperial Rule 1940
- Chapter Six .Confrontation with America and Britain 1941
- Chapter Seven .Japan and Kabuki at the Zenith 1942
- Part 3: Defeat and Survival: 1943-1945
- Chapter Eight. Kabuki and Japan's "Decisive Battle" 1943
- Chapter Nine. Kabuki Is a Luxury 1944
- Chapter Ten. The Agony Ends 1945
- Chapter Eleven. War Plays in Kabuki - a Retrospection August 1945
- Part 4 :Kabuki Outlasts the Occupation: 1945-1947
- Chapter Twelve. Inventing Classic Kabuki 1945-1947
- Notes
- Sources
- Index of Play Titles in English and Japanese
- Index of Kabuki Actors' Names in the Text
- index