Misora Hibari article

[Steve Ridgely]

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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