Translocal Performance in Asian Theatre and Film

• Main Author: Tuan, Iris H. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Performing arts.; Motion pictures-Asia.; Culture.; Technology.; Performing Arts.; Asian Cinema and TV.; Culture and Technology.

This pivot offers an innovative, trans-local perspective on performance studies in the era of digital technology, considering a range of content from theater to opera, film, dance, and musical theatre. It examines theatre performing arts and film in terms of aesthetics, gender studies, and identity...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Methodologies: From Postcolonial Feminism and Creolization toward Translocal
• Part One: Intercultural Theatre in Taiwan
• CLT's A Midsummer Night's Dream: Tradition, Modernity and Translocality
• Yukio Ninagawa's Hamlet in Taiwan: Intercultural Representation
• Theatre Represents Literature: Love and Labor in Send Away Under Escort
• Part Two: From Local to Global-Hakka, Dance, Chinese Musical, and Film
• Change of Hakka Opera: Ethnicity and Creation in Hakka Musical and Hakka TV Drama
• Hakka Culture and Image in Film and Performance
• Irresistible Seduction and Translocal Labor of Musical Theatre in Taiwan: From Translation to Multi- Arts
• Spectacle, Adaptation and Sexuality in Chinese Musicals
• The Abject, Murder and Sex in the Golden Horse Awards Film The Great Buddha+
• Sex, Money, Calculating and Manipulative in Politics in the Golden Horse Awards Film The Bold, The Corrupt, and The Beautiful
• Conclusion.