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Article: Manga Discourse in Japanese Theater: The Location of Noda Hideki's Yume No Yuminsha.(Book review)
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- Asian Theatre Journal
- Article date:
- September 22, 2006
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MANGA DISCOURSE IN JAPANESE THEATER: THE LOCATION OF NODA HIDEKI'S YUME NO YUMINSHA. By Yoshiko Fukushima. London: Kegan Paul, 2003. 313 pp. + illus. Cloth $161.50.
It has always puzzled me that Noda Hideki's work is not known and appreciated more outside of Japan. His theatre is playful, interesting, and bound to popular culture, which makes it appeal to a young, mass audience familiar with anime (animated films and television shows) and manga (comic books). The simple answer, of course, is that the linguistic wordplay and levels of reference to popular culture of Japan make the work challenging to Japanese audiences and almost incomprehensible to Westerners. ...