{"product_id":"9781350042094","title":"Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan : The Performing Body During and After the Cold War","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eCultural Responses to Occupation in Japan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Adam Broinowski\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCultural Responses to Occupation in Japan\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCultural Responses to Occupation in Japan\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“Adam Broinowski’s insightful book examines the evolution of the performing body in Japan’s nontraditional performing arts … Broinowski’s knowledge of Japanese cinema is also impressive and this book could serve as a thoroughly researched resource for the study of Japanese films of the early Cold War. The author reveals a deep understanding of butoh’s evolution from the nearly “dadaesque” experiments of its origins to the strictly choreographed, though still emotionally raw, works of Gekidan Kaitaisha and beyond.\" - \u003ci\u003eTDR: The Drama Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781350042094\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40654233993422,"sku":"9781350042094","price":46.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_a9cb504b-aac9-46cb-9183-c9a9202cd71a.jpg?v=1639363574","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781350042094","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}