Takarazuka : sexual politics and popular culture in modern Japan / Jennifer Robertson.
Takarazuka : sexual politics and popular culture in modern Japan / Jennifer Robertson.
Takarazuka : sexual politics and popular culture in modern Japan / Jennifer Robertson.
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Publisher
Berkeley : University of California Press, c1998.
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N306.0952/ 30
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English
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Physical content
xvi, 278 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Ambivalence and Popular Culture -- 2. Staging Androgyny -- 3. Performing Empire -- 4. Fan Pathology -- 5. Writing Fans.
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Publisher
Berkeley : University of California Press, c1998.
Place of Publication
California
Date Published
c1998.
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Summary
The all-female Takarazuka Revue, founded in 1913 as a novel counterpart to the all-male Kabuki theater, is world-famous today for its rococo musical productions, including gender-bending love stories, torridly romantic liaisons in foreign settings, and fanatically devoted fans. Drawing on over a decade of fieldwork and archival research, Jennifer R...
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Takarazuka : sexual politics and popular culture in modern Japan / Jennifer Robertson.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-264) and index.
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c1998.
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N306.0952/ 30
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74VvxXz0o04b
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvxXz0o04b
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ISBN
0520211510 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520211506 (alk. paper)
0520211502 (alk. paper)
9780520211513 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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306.0952
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991016772889702626
