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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. Drawing extensively from Japanese sources, Brandon shows that kabuki played an important role in Japan's Fifteen-Year S...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brandon, James R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Kabuki's foreign adventure: 1931-1939
  • Prelude to war
  • Kabuki and the Manchurian and Shanghai incidents: 1931-1934
  • Kabuki and the Marco Polo Bridge incident: 1937-1938
  • The darkening storm: 1939
  • Fruits of victory: 1940-1942
  • Kabuki and 2,600 years of imperial rule: 1940
  • Confrontation with America and Britain: 1941
  • Japan and kabuki at the zenith: 1942
  • Defeat and survival: 1943-1945
  • Kabuki and Japan's "decisive battle": 1943
  • Kabuki is a luxury: 1944
  • The agony ends: 1945
  • War plays in kabuki, a retrospection: August 1945
  • Kabuki outlasts the occupation: 1945-1947
  • Inventing classic kabuki: 1945-1947.