Frozen Moments: Writings on Kabuki, 1966-2001

by Samuel L. Leiter

Overview

A collection of fifteen essays written over nearly four decades by one of America's best-known scholars of Japan's kabuki theatre. Illustrated with numerous photographs, prints, and line drawings, it includes an overview of kabuki and its impact on world theatre, interviews with and biographical accounts of famous actors, discussions of kabuki acting and staging techniques, an examination of kabuki violence, accounts of English-language kabuki productions, studies of theatrical architecture, a survey of amateur kabuki in rural communities, and a comparison of kabuki with the eighteenth-century English theatre. Each essay has been revised, some considerably, and two previously unpublished essays have been provided.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781885445414
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Publication date:	03/31/2010
Series:	Cornell East Asia Series , #111
Pages:	380
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.85(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Samuel L. Leiter is distinguished professor of theatre at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and also teaches at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.