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

By:

Robertson, Jennifer, 1953-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1998.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 278 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780520920125
0520920120
058505343X
9780585053431
9780520211506
0520211502
9780520211513
0520211510

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Takarazuka.DDC classification:

306/.0952 21

LOC classification:

GN635.J2 R62 1998eb

Online resources:

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Contents:

1. Ambivalence and Popular Culture -- 2. Staging Androgyny -- 3. Performing Empire -- 4. Fan Pathology -- 5. Writing Fans.

Awards:

Ruth Benedict Prize (won), 1998

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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-264) and index.

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.

1. Ambivalence and Popular Culture -- 2. Staging Androgyny -- 3. Performing Empire -- 4. Fan Pathology -- 5. Writing Fans.

Print version record.

Ruth Benedict Prize (won), 1998

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