The man who saved Kabuki : Faubion Bowers and theatre censorship in occupied Japan /

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As part of its program to promote democracy in Japan after World War II, the American Occupation, headed by General Douglas MacArthur, undertook to enforce rigid censorship policies aimed at eliminating all traces of feudal thought in media and entertainment, including kabuki. Faubion Bowers (1917-1...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Okamoto, Shirō, 1946- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Japonés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Bowers, Faubion, > 1917-1999.
Bowers, Faubion.
United States. > Army > Officers > Biography.
United States. > Army.
1945-1952
Kabuki.
Bowers, Faubion > 1917-1999.
Japan > History > Allied occupation, 1945-1952.
HISTORY > Asia > Japan.
Armed Forces > Officers.
Zensur
Censuur.
Japon > Histoire > 1945-1952 (Occupation alliée)
Japan.
Japan
Biography
Biographies.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Faubion Bowers and Japan, 1940-1945
  • Wartime Kabuki: Censorship on the Home Front
  • The Occupation Commences and the Actors Return
  • Kabuki Censorship Begins: The "Terakoya" Incident
  • How Faubion Bowers "Saved" Kabuki
  • Kabuki's Suffering Ends
  • Epilogue: Letter from Kawatake Shigetoshi to Faubion Bowers
  • Kabuki Chronology, 1940-1948
  • Kabuki Plot Summaries.

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