Research Catalog

Title

Kabuki at the crossroads : years of crisis, 1952-1965 / by Samuel L. Leiter.

Author

Leiter, Samuel L.

Publication

Leiden : Global Oriental, 2013.

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Details

Description

xix, 744 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subject

Kabuki > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

And then there was one: Tokyo's three top acting companies -- Three K factors: Kenkyu Kai, Koryu, and Kaomise -- Kansai Kabuki at the crossroads -- Communists, teenage girls, and little theatres: three alternative Kabuki troupes -- When Toho got its Mojo -- Yakusha or Haiyu?: Kabuki actors at the crossroads -- Changing names, memorial flames -- Shumei of the century: the Danjuro dilemma -- Till death do your parts: debuts, education, and mortality -- From the Ginza to Broadway: Kabuki goes global -- Playhouses, programming, and plays -- Appendixes: A chronology of programs and events, May 1952 to December 1965 -- B Study groups: 1952-1965 -- C Traditional plays and the Zenshin-za 576 -- D The Katabami-za at the Sumida Gekijo and Oji Hall: 1952-1964 -- E Koshiro VII and Toho 580 -- F Selected awards: 1952-1965 -- G Shumei: 1952-1965 -- H Acting debuts: 1952-1965 -- I Actors' deaths: 1952-1965 -- J Production statistics: 1952-1965 -- K Actors, names -- L Synopses of new plays produced at the Kabuki-za: 1952-1965.

ISBN

• 9789004250093 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9004250093 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2013007412

OCLC

833381049

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library