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  • Performing Female Intimacy in Japan's Takarazuka Revue

    by Nobuko Anan ...
    Series series Elements in Women Theatre Makers
    Japan's Takarazuka Revue is arguably the most commercially successful all-female theatre company in the world. Renowned for its glamour-laden staging of musicals and revues, the company's signature shows are heterosexual Western romances where women play both male and female roles. Since its audience consists almost entirely of women, Takarazuka creates a space for queer intimacy between ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Contemporary Japanese Women’s Theatre and Visual Arts

    Performing Girls’ Aesthetics

    by Nobuko Anan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book traces the history of 'girls' aesthetics,' where adult Japanese women create art works about 'girls' that resist motherhood, from the modern to the contemporary period and their manifestation in Japanese women's theatrical and dance performance and visual arts including manga, film, and installation arts. ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

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    Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America

    by Sabina Magliocco ...
    Series series Contemporary Ethnography
    Taking the reader into the heart of one of the fastest-growing religious movements in North America, Sabina Magliocco reveals how the disciplines of anthropology and folklore were fundamental to the early development of Neo-Paganism and the revival of witchcraft. Magliocco examines the roots that this religious movement has in a Western spiritual tradition of mysticism disavowed by the ... Read more

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  • New Moon Magic

    13 Anti-Capitalist Tools for Resistance and Re-Enchantment

    by Risa Dickens, Amy Torok ...
    **Harness the power of lunar magic with 13 essential practices for the modern witch—one for each New Moon of the yearFresh, fierce, and unapologetically feminist, this is both guidebook and rallying cry: an intersectional and inclusive magical praxis that resists, disrupts, and opens the door to nourishment, abundance, and transformation—for readers of Psychic Witch and The Spell Book for New ... Read more

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  • Beautiful Fighting Girl

    Translated by J. Keith Vincent, Dawn Lawson ...
    by Hiroki Azuma, Saito Tamaki ...
    From Cutie Honey and Sailor Moon to Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, the worlds of Japanese anime and manga teem with prepubescent girls toting deadly weapons. Sometimes overtly sexual, always intensely cute, the beautiful fighting girl has been both hailed as a feminist icon and condemned as a symptom of the objectification of young women in Japanese society.In Beautiful Fighting Girl, Saitō ... Read more

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  • Anime’s Media Mix

    Franchising Toys and Characters in Japan

    by Marc Steinberg ...
    In Anime’s Media Mix, Marc Steinberg convincingly shows that anime is far more than a style of Japanese animation. Beyond its immediate form of cartooning, anime is also a unique mode of cultural production and consumption that led to the phenomenon that is today called “media mix” in Japan and “convergence” in the West.According to Steinberg, both anime and the media mix were ignited on January 1 ... Read more

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  • Tokyo in Transit

    Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road

    by Alisa Freedman ...
    Increased use of mass transportation in the early twentieth century enabled men and women of different social classes to interact in ways they had not before. Using a cultural studies approach that combines historical research and literary analysis, author Alisa Freedman investigates fictional, journalistic, and popular culture depictions of how mass transportation changed prewar Tokyo's social ... Read more

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    Powerful voices on witchcraft ethics

    by Alice Tarbuck, Claire Askew ...
    Galvanizing and electrifying glimpses from the brink of the contemporary CraftThis eclectic collection of essays on responsible witchcraft is a fascinating snapshot of contemporary occult practice. Essay topics include the ethics of decolonization, meditations on what it means to honor Mother Earth during the Anthropocene, the reclamation of agency for working-class and queer witches through ... Read more

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  • Gender in Japanese Popular Culture

    Rethinking Masculinities and Femininities

    Edited by Sirpa Salenius ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This open-access essay collection brings together a range of viewpoints on gender from a diverse group of international scholars based in Finland, Belgium, Japan, Singapore, and Australia. The focus is, in particular, on gender performativity and non-binary or non-normative gender. The essays examine the ways in which gender can be depicted, perceived, and understood in Japanese popular culture. ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture

    Edited by Yoshio Sugimoto ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of the influences that have shaped modern-day Japan. Spanning one and a half centuries from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 to the beginning of the twenty-first century, this volume covers topics such as technology, food, nationalism and rise of anime and manga in the visual arts. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture traces the cultural ... Read more

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  • A History of Japanese Theatre

    Edited by Jonah Salz ...
    Japan boasts one of the world's oldest, most vibrant and most influential performance traditions. This accessible and complete history provides a comprehensive overview of Japanese theatre and its continuing global influence. Written by eminent international scholars, it spans the full range of dance-theatre genres over the past fifteen hundred years, including noh theatre, bunraku puppet theatre, ... Read more

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  • Male Homosexuality in Modern Japan

    Cultural Myths and Social Realities

    by Mark J. McLelland ...
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