Misora Hibari article

[Frances Loden]

Thanks for the announcement, Steve!

Frako Loden
Berkeley, CA

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Steve Ridgely <sridgely at wisc.edu> wrote:

> Dear kinejapan,
>
> Just a quick announcement that Deborah Shamoon (Notre Dame) has a new
> article out in the latest issue of *Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and
> Society* (vol. 35, no. 1) called "Misora Hibari and the Girl Star in
> Postwar Japanese Cinema."
>
> She traces out Hibari's film career in the context of postwar girl's
> culture and then focuses in on how the film *The Izu Dancer (Izu no
> odoriko) *was obsessively remade not only to iconize girl stars like
> Yoshinaga Sayuri and Yamaguchi Momoe, but also to reconfigure Hibari's image
> as she aged.
>
> Hopefully you'll be able to find this in your local library, but if not,
> the University of Chicago will sell you the pdf for $10!
>
> Here's more information, including the article abstract:
>
> http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/599268
>
> Steve Ridgely
> UW-Madison
>
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