Initial Publication Date: December 3, 2012
ARTH 320: Japanese Theater: Visualizing Narrative Across Media
Instructor: Katie RyorArt History
Winter 2011
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Liz Furuya '12, Mallory Monsma '11, Gabriel Silberblatt '11
Winter 2011
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Course DescriptionLiz Furuya '12, Mallory Monsma '11, Gabriel Silberblatt '11
Winter 2011
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This course will address the ways various forms of theater in Japan have responded to changing social and political forces over their histories. It will also interrogate the intersections, as well as crucial differences, between literary drama, performance, and representation in print media. Students will read a number of Kabuki and Noh plays, view films of performances of these plays, study illustrated books that preserve visual and textual records of performances, examine woodblock prints of actors in their roles from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, and look at the development of costumes and masks.