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Performance Studies

China

Transcultural Fandom: Japanese Fans of HK Stars

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...
Panama Canal
Latin America

Race, Nation, the Panama Canal

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......
Gender Film Theory
Chinese Lit

Gender Politics in Chinese & Hollywood Films

A review of Transnational Remakes: Gender and Politics in Chinese Cinemas and Hollywood (1990-2009), by Jinhua Li. Transnational remakes between Chine...
Gender

Native American Women’s Theatre

A review of Confronting Convention: Discourse and Innovation in Contemporary Native American Women’s Theatre, by Tiffany Noell. With her doctoral work...
China

Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Museum

A review of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Museum (Uy. Shinjang uyghur aptonom rayonluq muzéy, Ch. Xinjiang weiwu’er zizhiqu bowuguan) (Urumqi,...
Asian Art

Butoh in a Global Performance Context

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,...
Japan

Silent Films of Ozu Yasujiro

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...
Latin America

Performing Trauma: 9/11, Katrina, the Guerra Sucia

A review of Performing Nation, Performing Trauma: Theatre and Performance after September 11th, Hurricane Katrina and the Peruvian Dirty War, by Kathe...
Media Studies

Revealing the Sensorial World of Plants

A review of The Sensorial Invisibility of Plants: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry through Bio Art and Neurobiology, by Laura Cinti. Laura Cinti’s dissert...
Media Studies

Anthropology of the Flashmob

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...
Performance

Racial Politics of South Asian Dance

A review of On the Move: Transnational South Asian Dancers and the “Flexible” Dancing Body, by Anusha Lakshmi Kedhar. Anusha Lakshmi Kedha...
Media Studies

Performance + Print & Media Cultures

The Performance series and the Print and Media Cultures series will continue to bring you reviews of dissertations, “Fresh from the Archives” pieces, ...
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