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Noda Manabu
Department Undergraduate School , School of Arts and Letters Position Professor |
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| Language | English |
| Publication Date | 2009/03 |
| Type | Book Chapter Paper |
| Peer Review | Peer reviewed |
| Invitation | Invited paper |
| Title | The Politics of Stage Violence in Japan Today |
| Contribution Type | Sole-authored |
| Journal | Theatre and Humanism in a World of Violence, ed. by Ian Herbert and Kalina Stefanova |
| Journal Type | Another Country |
| Publisher | Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski University Press |
| Volume, Issue, Page | pp.195-203 |
| Details | How does today's theatre reflect the current change in the relationship between power and violence? Stage violence becomes dangerously 'sexy' when it caters to scopophiliac -- or panoptical -- desire, and that can happen regardless of whether, as in kabuki, it is stylized and aestheticized to serve as a dose of moral anaesthesia. Looking away and pretending not to see it, however, is worse, if the artist firmly believes the depiction of violence is necessary for getting engaged in the politics of perception. The paper discusses some of the questions that arise from this context with special attention to Hideki Noda's The Bee (2006) and Simon McBurney's Shun-kin (2008). |
| ISBN | 978-954-07-2827-8 |