[csaa-forum] FW: UNSW seminar ~ Vera Mackie

[Buettner, Angi]

> From: 	James Donald
> Sent: 	Friday, September 16, 2005 13:26 PM
> Subject: 	UNSW seminar ~ Vera Mackie
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> UNSW Media, Film and Theatre Seminars
> 5 p.m. Wednesday 21 September 2005
> Webster Building 327
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> Post-1960s Japanese Performance Iconography
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> Vera Mackie
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> In 1960s and 1970s Japan there was a flourishing underground theatre movement.  This theatre movement was accompanied by a vibrant visual culture in the form of posters which advertised the theatrical performances.  In the posters of the time we can see a rejection of the clean and geometric lines of the 'international style' of graphic design. This took the form of a plundering of the history of graphic design, with borrowings from Japanese woodblock prints, advertising handbills, everyday objects, and elements borrowed from the graphic design and popular culture of Europe and other countries.  In this paper I focus on 'the spectacle of woman' in selected Japanese underground theatre posters according to the following themes: decorative woman, grotesque woman, the forbidden and the fetishised, and the tension between the erotic and the maternal. 
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> Vera Mackie is ARC Australian Professorial Fellow in History at the University of Melbourne, where she is working on A Cultural History of the Body in Modern Japan.  Her publications include Gurôbaruka to Jendâ Hyôshô (Globalisation and Representations of Gender) (2003), Feminism in Modern Japan: Citizenship, Embodiment and Sexuality (2003) and Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Gender, Labour and Activism (1997). 
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> Dr James Donald
> Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
> Professor of Film Studies, School of Media, Film and Theatre
> University of New South Wales
> Sydney
> NSW 2052
> Australia
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