Title Takarazuka : sexual politics and popular culture in modern Japan / Jennifer Robertson

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 278 pages) : illustrations Contents 1. Ambivalence and Popular Culture -- 2. Staging Androgyny -- 3. Performing Empire -- 4. Fan Pathology -- 5. Writing Fans Summary The all-female Takarazuka Revue is world-famous today for its rococo musical productions, including gender-bending love stories, torridly romantic liaisons in foreign settings, and fanatically devoted fans. In this book the author explores how the Revue illuminates discourses of sexual politics, nationalism, imperialism, and popular culture in twentieth-century Japan Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-264) and index Notes Print version record Ruth Benedict Prize (won), 1998 Subject Takarazuka Kagekidan. SUBJECT Takarazuka Kagekidan fast Subject Ethnology -- Japan. Theater -- Japan. Musicals -- Japan Popular culture -- Japan. Sex role -- Japan Social structure -- Japan SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. Ethnology Manners and customs Musicals Popular culture Sex role Social structure Theater SUBJECT Japan -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069579 Subject Japan Form Electronic book ISBN 9780520920125 0520920120 058505343X 9780585053431 9780520211506 0520211502 9780520211513 0520211510

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