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Performativity and Event in 1960s Japan: City, Body, Memory 1st ed. 2013 Edition
Author(s): P. Eckersall (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 1 Jan. 2013
- Edition: 1st ed. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 191 pages
- ISBN-10: 1349437077
- ISBN-13: 9781349437078
Book Description
Performativity and Event in 1960s Japan considers the artists and events in 1960s Japan. In response to the social upheavals of the 1960s, it shows how art interacted with society in unique and transformational ways, nterweaving arguments about the critical role of performance as an artistic medium and as a social dramaturgy.
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Review
‘A fresh, innovative and rigorous work on a largely unexplored aspect of Japanese performance and urban space in the 1960s, this book will appeal to scholars and students from across several disciplinary boundaries.’ – Alan Cummings, SOAS University of London, UK
About the Author
Peter Eckersall teaches Theatre Studies in the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne. Recent publications include Kawamura Takeshi’s Nippon Wars and Other Plays and Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific: Regional Modernities in the Global Era (with Denise Varney, Barbara Hatley and Chris Hudson). He is a specialist of contemporary performance and a dramaturgy.
