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The first in-depth scholarly study in English of the Japanese performance medium kamishibai , Sharalyn Orbaugh’s Propaganda Performed illuminates the vibrant street culture of 1930's Japan as well as the visual and narrative rhetoric of Japanese propaganda in World War II. Emerging from Japan’s cities in the late 1920's, kamishibai rapidly transformed from a cheap amusement associated with poverty into the most popular form of juvenile entertainment, eclipsing even film and manga. By the time kamishibai died as a living medium in the 1970's it had left behind indelible influences on popular culture forms such as manga and anime, as well as on avant-garde cinema, theater, and art. From 1932 to 1945, however, kamishibai also became a vehicle for propaganda messages aimed not primarily at children, but at adults. A mixture of script, image, and performance, the medium was particularly suited to conveying populist, emotionally compelling messages to audiences of all classes, ages, and literacy levels, making it a crucial tool in the government’s efforts to mobilize the domestic populace in Japan and to pacify the inhabitants of the empire’s colonies and occupied territories. With seven complete translations of wartime plays, over 300 color illustrations from hard-to-access kamishibai play cards, and photographs of prewar performances, this study constitutes an archive of wartime history in addition to providing a detailed analysis of the rhetoric of political persuasion.

Kamishibai --- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Propaganda, Japanese --- War and theater --- War and society --- J6838 --- J4125 --- J4000.80 --- J3385 --- Society and war --- War --- Sociology --- Civilians in war --- Sociology, Military --- Theater and war --- Theater --- European War, 1939-1945 --- Second World War, 1939-1945 --- World War 2, 1939-1945 --- World War II, 1939-1945 --- World War Two, 1939-1945 --- WW II (World War, 1939-1945) --- WWII (World War, 1939-1945) --- History, Modern --- Chinese-Japanese War, 1937-1945 --- Japan-China War, 1937-1945 --- Japanese-Chinese War, 1937-1945 --- Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 --- Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945 --- Japanese propaganda --- Children's theater --- Street theater --- History and criticism --- Propaganda --- History --- Japan: Performing arts and entertainment -- kamishibai, picture stories, shadow plays --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- propaganda --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- Gendai (1926- ), Shōwa period, 20th century --- Japan: History -- Gendai, modern -- Shōwa period -- World War II -- invasion of Asia (1931-1945) --- Social aspects --- Japan --- Social life and customs --- E-books --- History and criticism. --- Propaganda. --- Art and the war.

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In this, the first collection in English of feminist-oriented research on Japanese art and visual culture, an international group of scholars examines representations of women in a wide range of visual work. The volume begins with Chino Kaori's now-classic essay "Gender in Japanese Art," which introduced feminist theory to Japanese art. This is followed by a closer look at a famous thirteenth-century battle scroll and the production of bijin (beautiful women) prints within the world of Edo-period advertising. A rare homoerotic picture-book is used to extrapolate the "grammar of desire" as represented in late seventeenth-century Edo. In the modern period, contributors consider the introduction to Meiji Japan of the Western nude and oil-painting and examine Nihonga (Japanese-style painting) and the role of one of its famous artists. The book then shifts its focus to an examination of paintings produced for the Japanese-sponsored annual salons held in colonial Korea. The postwar period comes under scrutiny in a study of the novel Woman in the Dunes and its film adaptation. The critical discourse that surrounded women artists of the late twentieth-century--the "Super Girls of Art"--is analyzed, followed by a consideration of gender ambiguity and cross-gender identification in contemporary anime and manga.

J4176 --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- gender roles, women, feminism

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