Description
Book SynopsisExplores the significant impact of this countercultural figure of postwar Japan.
Trade Review"Steven C. Ridgely’s Japanese Counterculture is invaluable—a long overdue study of Terayama’s complex oeuvre, carefully researched and brilliantly argued. But Japanese Counterculture offers much more: it proposes to redefine the practice of cultural and countercultural studies, and even more significantly, the very nature of global culture. Therein lie its force, ingenuity, and radicality." —Akira Mizuta Lippit, University of Southern California
"Ridgely’s exciting book opens Terayama’s world—his work as a poet, playwright/theater director, radio dramatist, filmmaker—and most importantly conveys the feeling and air of the times, the ‘tactical’ interventions of this fascinating figure within the space of counterculture." —Miryam Sas, University of California, Berkeley
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction: Global Counterculture, Visual Counterculture
1. Poetic Kleptomania and Pseudo-Lyricism
2. Radio Drama in the Age of Television
3. Boxing-Stuttering-Graffiti
4. Deinstitutionalizing Theatre and Film
5. The Impossibility of History
Conclusion: "Japanese" Counterculture
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
