| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 222 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
Introduction : global counterculture, visual counterculture -- Poetic kleptomania and pseudo-lyricism -- Radio drama in the age of television -- Boxing/stuttering/graffiti -- Deinstitutionalizing theater and film -- The impossibility of history -- Conclusion : "Japanese" counterculture |
| Summary |
Terayama Shuji (1935-1983) was an avant-garde Japanese poet, dramatist, film director, and photographer known for his highly provocative work. In this inventive and revealing work, Steven Ridgely examines Terayama's life and art to show that a conventional notion of him does not do full justice to the meaning and importance of his wide-ranging, often playful body of work. Ridgely places Terayama at the center of Japanese and global counterculture and finds in his work a larger story about the history of postwar Japanese art and culture. He sees Terayama as reflecting the most significant event |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-214) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Terayama, Shūji, 1936-1983 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Terayama, Shūji, 1936-1983 |
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Counterculture -- Japan
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- Japanese.
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Counterculture
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Japan
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010028451 |
| ISBN |
9780816675289 |
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0816675287 |
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9781452946801 |
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1452946809 |
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