Performance Studies
A review of Some of Us are Looking at the Stars: Japanese Women, Hong Kong Films, and Transcultural Fandom, by Lori Hitchcock Morimoto. Lori Hitchcock...
A review of Claiming the Canal: Performances of Race and Nation in Panama, 1904-1999, by Katherine Zien. The history of the Panama Canal has long......
A review of Transnational Remakes: Gender and Politics in Chinese Cinemas and Hollywood (1990-2009), by Jinhua Li. Transnational remakes between Chine...
A review of Confronting Convention: Discourse and Innovation in Contemporary Native American Women’s Theatre, by Tiffany Noell. With her doctoral work...
A review of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Museum (Uy. Shinjang uyghur aptonom rayonluq muzéy, Ch. Xinjiang weiwu’er zizhiqu bowuguan) (Urumqi,...
A review of An Empty Room: Butoh Performance and the Social Body in Crisis, by Michael Sakamoto. Butoh, a dance style that originates in Japan,...
A review of Reflecting Hollywood: Mobility and Lightness in the Early Silent Films of Ozu Yasujiro, 1927-1933, by Yuki Takinami. Contrary to the conve...
A review of Performing Nation, Performing Trauma: Theatre and Performance after September 11th, Hurricane Katrina and the Peruvian Dirty War, by Kathe...
A review of The Sensorial Invisibility of Plants: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry through Bio Art and Neurobiology, by Laura Cinti. Laura Cinti’s dissert...
A review of Scenes of Chaos and Joy: Playing and Performing Selves in Digitally Virtu/Real Places, by Denice Joy Szafran. Denise Joy Szafran’s d...
A review of On the Move: Transnational South Asian Dancers and the “Flexible” Dancing Body, by Anusha Lakshmi Kedhar. Anusha Lakshmi Kedha...
The Performance series and the Print and Media Cultures series will continue to bring you reviews of dissertations, “Fresh from the Archives” pieces, ...