{"title":"Theatrical realism in manga: Performativity of gender in Minako Narita's Alien Street","authors":"Nobuko Anan","doi":"10.1386/jafp_00002_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jafp_00002_1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article examines different conceptions of realism in theatre and manga by focusing on gender performance in Minako Narita's manga, Alien Street (1980‐84). It depicts a male actor who plays female roles in realist theatre productions. I argue that the\u0000 believability of this gender performance stems in part from the conventions of manga realism, where non-realistic signs are used to mark gender distinctions. However, in contrast to these conventions, this manga also highlights the performative nature of gender by revealing how a realist stage\u0000 forces the performers to cite and repeat the conventional gendered practices. In doing so, Alien Street mixes manga and theatre realism and complicates our understanding of gender conventions.","PeriodicalId":41019,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance","volume":"488 1","pages":"133-141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77053311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Yayoi Kusama, the Modern Alice","authors":"Amanda Kennell","doi":"10.1386/jafp_00006_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jafp_00006_1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Yayoi Kusama's polka dot art and Infinity Mirror rooms have made her one of the most successful artists alive today. Her more than seven-decade-long career has provided ample fodder for scholars to examine her artistic preoccupations. This article considers\u0000 the scholarly consensus on the role of performance in Kusama's oeuvre and then examines two works, a 1968 happening and a 2013 illustrated book, in which Kusama (1929‐present) adapts Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland novels. By adapting Alice, Kusama is able to sharpen themes and\u0000 symbols that she has deployed since the early days of her career.","PeriodicalId":41019,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance","volume":"33 1","pages":"195-210"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72916152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interpretative negotiation with gender norms in shōjo manga adaptations of The Changelings","authors":"Michiko Oshiyama, Kohki Watabe","doi":"10.1386/jafp_00005_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jafp_00005_1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Changelings is a classic work of traditional Japanese literature. In the modern era, it has been adapted into Japanese comics repeatedly. This article examines three shōjo manga, or girls' comics, adaptations of The Changelings published between\u0000 1984 and 2018. Taken together, the three manga evidence the different situations in which women were embedded in the 1980s and the 2010s and provide different interpretative alternatives to female readers. Manga adaptations of The Changelings crystallized gender norms in Japanese society\u0000 and women's responses to and struggles with those norms by taking advantage of the gender-switching plot that originated in the twelfth century.","PeriodicalId":41019,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance","volume":"81 1","pages":"179-193"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90621384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adaptation in/and Japan","authors":"Amanda Kennell","doi":"10.1386/jafp_00001_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jafp_00001_2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41019,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance","volume":"1 1","pages":"129-132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89031378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review","authors":"Manuela Perteghella","doi":"10.1386/jafp.12.1-2.119_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jafp.12.1-2.119_5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41019,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89488187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hecuba Reimagined","authors":"Carlota Caulfield","doi":"10.1386/jafp.12.1-2.65_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jafp.12.1-2.65_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41019,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84747364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Secret Agent in the Netherlands: Interview with Izabela Pacholec","authors":"R. Hampson","doi":"10.1386/JAFP.12.1-2.107_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JAFP.12.1-2.107_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41019,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance","volume":"90 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84770674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Martha Graham’s Letter to the World: A dance adaptation of Emily Dickinson","authors":"Rosella Simonari","doi":"10.1386/JAFP.12.1-2.33_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JAFP.12.1-2.33_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41019,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76797185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A quiet subversion: Taiwanese opera tradaptation of the Biblical story of Joseph","authors":"Ya-chun Liu","doi":"10.1386/JAFP.12.1-2.19_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JAFP.12.1-2.19_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41019,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80579764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘But not love [...]’: An interview with Loredana Scaramella about her translation, adaptation and direction of La bisbetica domata (The Taming of the Shrew) at the Silvano Toti Globe Theatre in Rome (2018)","authors":"Maddalena Pennacchia","doi":"10.1386/JAFP.12.1-2.91_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JAFP.12.1-2.91_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41019,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance","volume":"71 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86145981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}