The Place of Women in Japanese Culture

• Barbara Ruch, ed. Engendering Faith: Women and Buddhism in Premodern Japan. Ann Arbor, MI: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2002.
• Hitomi Tonomura, Anne Walthall and Wakita Haruko, eds. Women and Class in Japanese History. Ann Arbor, MI: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1999.
• Wakita Haruko (trans. Alison Tokita). Women in Medieval Japan: Motherhood, Household Management and Sexuality. Clayton: Monash Asia Institute; Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2006.
• Joshua S. Mostow, Norman Bryson, and Maribeth Graybill, eds. Gender and Power in the Japanese Visual Field. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003.

Japanese Classical Theater in the World

• 3⁄43⁄43⁄4. “Translating Kabuki for English Performance.” In Studies on Japanese Culture. Vol. 2. Tokyo: PEN, 1973.

• Jean-Louis Barrault. Memories for Tomorrow: The Memoirs of Jean-Louis Barrault. Trans. Jonathan Griffin. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1974.

• James R. Brandon. “Kabuki in English: Toward Authenticity.” In International Conference Journal: Japanese Tradition: Search and Research. Los Angeles: University of California at Los Angeles, 1981.

• ---.“Bridging Cultures: 101 Years of Kabuki in Hawaii.” In Performing Arts of Asia: The Performer as (Inter)Cultural Transmitter. Working Papers Series 4. Leiden: International Institute for Asian Studies, University of Leiden, 1996.

• ---. Nō and Kyōgen in the Contemporary World. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1997.

• ---. Kabuki's Forgotten War; 1931-1945. Honolulu: University Press of Hawai’i, 2009.

• James R. Brandon and Samuel L. Leiter, eds. Japanese Theater in the World. New York: Japan Foundation: Japan Society, 1997.

• ---., eds. Kabuki Plays On Stage, Vol. 1: Brilliance And Bravado, 1697-1766. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002.

• Jamers R. Brandon, William P. Malm and Donald H. Shively, eds. Studies in Kabuki: Its Acting, Music, and Historical Context. Honolulu: University Press of Hawai’i, 1978.

• Osman Edward. Japanese Plays and Playfellows. New York: Lane, 1901.

  Grand Kabuki: Overseas Tours 1928-1993. Tokyo: Shochiku Company, 1994.

• Frank Hoff. “Kanze Hisao (1925-1978): Making Nō into Contemporary Theatre.” In Zeami and the Nō Theatre in the World. eds. Benito Ortolani and Samuel L. Leiter. New York: Center for Advanced Study in Theatre Arts (Casta), 1998. 77-99.

• Peter Hyland. “A Kind of Woman: The Elizabethan Boy-Actor and the Kabuki Onnagata.” Theatre Research International 12:1 (1987).

• Kawatake Toshio. “The Reaction to Overseas Performances of Kabuki.” Maske and Kothurn 27:1 (1981).

• ---. A Crisis of Kabuki and Its Revival Right after World War II.” Waseda Journal of Asian Studies 5 (1983).

• ---. “Japanese Traditional Culture and Today’s Japan: The Internationalization of the Kabuki Theatre and Its Function in Modern Society.” In Contemporary European Writing on Japan: Scholarly Views from Eastern and Western Europe. ed. Ian Nish. Woodchurch, Ashford, Kent: Paul Norbury, 1988.

• ---. Kabuki Baroque Fusion of the Arts. Tokyo: LTCB International Library Trust/International House of Japan, 2003.

• Laurence R. Kominz. The Stars Who Created Kabuki: Their Lives, Loves, and Legacy. New York: Kodansha, 1997.

• Thomas Leims. “Kabuki Goes to Hollywood: Reforms and ‘Revues’ in the 1980s.” In The Dramatic Touch of Difference: Theatre, Own and Foreign. ed. Erika Fischer-Lichte, et al. Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1990.

• Samuel L. Letier. “Authentic Kabuki: American Style.” Theatre Crafts 2 (September/October 1968).

• ---. Tachimawari: Stage Fighting in the Kabuki Theater. Monographs on Music, Dance and  Theatre in Asia. Vol. 3. New York: Performing Arts Program of the Asia Society, 1976.

• James A. Michener. “Kabuki is a Must for America”. Theatre Arts 38 (March 1954).

• Ezra Pound. ‘Noh,’ or, Accomplishment, a Study of the Classical Stage of Japan. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1917.

• Leonard Pronko.“Learning Kabuki: The Training Program of the National Theatre of Japan.” Educational Theatre Journal 23 (December 1971).

• ---. “Creating Kabuki for the West.” Special Issue on “Japanese Theatre and the West.” ed. A. Horie-Weber. Contemporary Theatre Review 1, part 2 (1994).

• Eric C. Rath. The Ethos of Noh: Actors and Their Art. Harvard East Asian Monographs no. 232. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004.

• Marie C. Stopes. Plays of Old Japan: The Nô. London: W. Heinemann, 1913.

• Tsubouchi Shôyô and Yamamoto Jirô. History and Characteristics of Kabuki, the Japanese Classical Drama. Yokohama: Heiji Yamagata, 1960.

• Unno Mitsuko (Ann B. Gary, trans.). The Challenge of Kabuki: Canadian Academy on Stage. Tokyo: Japan Times, 1979.

• Arthur Waley. The Nô Plays of Japan. London: G. Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1921.

• Kevin J. Wetmore. “1954 Selling Kabuki to the West.” Asian Theatre Journal, Volume 26, No. 1, 2009.

Asian Popular Culture in Films

Post Script 28.2 (Winter/Spring 2009

• "Testimonials: Remembering Keiko I. McDonald (In memoriam)," 4-9.
• Keiko I. McDonald. "Introduction (Matthew Arnold's 'Culture and Anarchy')," 10-15.
• Lars-Martin Sorensen. "The Bestseller Recipe: A Natural Explanation of the Global Success of Anime," 16-27.
• Kukhee Choo. "Visual Evolution Across the Pacific: The Influence of Anime and Video Games on US Film Media," 28-37.
• Keiko I. McDonald. "Whatever Happened to Films Inspired by Comics?: The Case of Always (2005)," 38-49.
• Stephen Prince. "Mecha Samurai: Kurosawa in the World of Anime," 50-58.
• Adam Lowenstein. "Ghosts in a Super Flat Global Village: Globalization, Surrealism, and Contemporary Japanese Horror Films," 59-71.
• Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. "Technoghosts and Culture Shocks: Sociocultural Shifts in American Remakes of J-Horror," 72-81.
• Kara Lynn Andersen. "My Stockings. Lip Them:" Consuming Japan through Film and Video Games," 82-91.
• Charles Shiro Inouye. "Promoting Virtue and Punishing Vice: Tarantino's Kill Bill and the Return of Bakumatsu Aesthetics," 92-100.
• Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano. "Ethnically Marked 'Heroes:' From Rikidozan to Shunpei in Blood and Bones," 101-111.
• Chris Wood. "The European Fantasy Space and Identity Construction in Porco Rosso," 112-119.

International Influences of Video Games

• Aoyama Yuko and Hiro Izushi. “Creative Foundations of the Japanese Video Game Industry.” In Cultural Industries and the Production of Culture. eds. D. Power and A.J. Scott. London and New York: Routledge, 2004: 110-129.
• Mia Consalvo. "Console Video Games and Global Corporations: Creating a Hybrid Culture." New Media and Society, Vol. 8, No. 1 (2006): 117-137.
• Rob Fahey. Grasshopper’s Suda 51. Euogamer. Electronic document, 2008. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/grasshoppers-suda-51-interview
• Izushi Hiro and Yuko Aoyama. "Industry Evolution and Cross-Sectoral Skill Transfers: A Comparative Analysis of the Video Game Industry in Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom." Environment and Planning, A 38, No. 10 (2006): 1843-1861.
• Edge staff. INTERVIEW: Suda 51 Revisited. Edge: The Global Game Industry Network. Electronic document, 2008. http://www.edge-online.com/magazine/interview-suda-51-revisited

Funding is provided by: Toshiba International Foundation, Japan Iron and Steel Federation and Mitsubishi endowments at the University of Pittsburgh

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