Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei

Biographic Data

ID1709134
NAMECarol Fisher Sorgenfrei
GIVEN NAMESCarol Fisher
FAMILY NAMESorgenfrei
SIGNATURESORGENFREI C F
AFFILIATIONSProfessor of Theatre at UCLA
ORCID0000-0002-0585-6428
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR16
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1985
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
H-INDEX0

  • Theatre Histories

    Bruce Mcconachie, Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei et al.BOOKTheatre Histories2013

  • Guilt, Nostalgia, and Victimhood

    Open AccessCarol Fisher SorgenfreiARTICLENew Theatre Quarterly2013

    How has post-war Japanese theatre grappled with Japanese responsibility for its imperialistic/militaristic past in Asia, and for institutionalized discrimination against resident minorities? Using the tools of guilt, nostalgia, and the valorization of victimhood that are embedded in the idea of hōgan biiki (sympathy for the loser/victims), Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei here analyzes Japan's often contradictory, flip-flopping self-image as both victimiz…

  • Inexorable Modernity

    Carol Fisher SorgenfreiARTICLETheatre Journal2008

    Reviewed by: Inexorable Modernity: Japan's Grappling with Modernity in the Arts Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei Inexorable Modernity: Japan's Grappling with Modernity in the Arts. Edited by Hiroshi Nara. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007; pp. x + 269. $90.00 cloth, $32.95 paper. It should be stated at the outset that the editor and authors of this excellent volume wholeheartedly agree that the notion of linear or universal modernity is a vexed one. By cr…

  • Countering ‘Theoretical Imperialism’

    Open AccessCarol Fisher SorgenfreiARTICLETheatre Research International2007

    When scholars of any nation become so proud of their mastery of alien concepts that they forget or suppress their own cultural identity, they willingly succumb to ‘theoretical imperialism’. The flip side is the arrogant and wholesale imposition by Western scholars of theories created in the crucible of one culture on other cultures, subcultures or historical eras with divergent philosophical foundations. This article introduces several key Japane…

  • The Edinburgh International Festival, and

    Carol Fisher SorgenfreiARTICLETheatre Journal2006

    Reviewed by: The Edinburgh International Festival, and: The Edinburgh Fringe Festival Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei The Edinburgh International Festival. Edinburgh, Scotland. 1408 to 04092005. The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Edinburgh, Scotland. 07– 29082005. The Edinburgh International Festival, founded in 1947, remains the world's oldest, largest, and most prestigious event of its kind. Yet it is only part of a massive month-long arts event. For theat…

  • Books

    Carol Fisher SorgenfreiARTICLETDR/The Drama Review2004

    September 01 2004 The Man Who Saved Kabuki: Faubion Bowers and Theatre Censorship in Occupied Japan The Man Who Saved Kabuki: Faubion Bowers and Theatre Censorship in Occupied Japan. By OkamotoShiro Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei Professor of Theatre at UCLA Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei Professor of Theatre at UCLA Online ISSN: 1531-4715 …

  • Desperately Seeking Asia

    Carol Fisher SorgenfreiARTICLEAsian Theatre Journal1997

    After listening to Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei's remarks as a panelist for Theater Studies in the 21st Century at the 1994 ATHE conference in Chicago, the editor of ATJ asked her to evaluate the Asian sections of major theatre history texts. She concludes that although several current and some out-of-print volumes do incorporate Asian theatre with varying degress of success, the Eurocentric bias continues to thrive in much of American academia. Recen…

  • Rencontres Avec Ariane Mnouchkine

    Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei, Josette Feral et al.ARTICLEAsian Theatre Journal1997

  • Deadly Love

    Carol Fisher SorgenfreiARTICLEContemporary Theatre Review1994

    Co‐existing with the traditional Japanese view of woman as docile, self‐sacrificing, and nurturing is an equally ancient image of woman as powerful shamaness, terrifying demon, sexual enchantress, or suffocating mother. Misogynistic and gynophobic tendencies in traditional and contemporary Japanese culture represent to certain male artists an authentic, pre‐Buddhist, pre‐Shinto Japanese soul. Fear of female sexuality and female power is traced in…

  • Inugami

    Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei, Shuji TerayamaARTICLEAsian Theatre Journal1994

    Dead poets never die, they just metamorphose. Their lives become legends. Poet-playwright-filmmaker-essayist-director-photographer and enfant maudit Shuji Terayama (1935-1983) continues to exert a cult fascination on Japanese youth. The tenth anniversary of his death from peritonitis occasioned a flurry of exhibits, stage productions, books, documentaries, and retrospective film showings. Sanctified and demonized, more popular in death than in li…

  • Orientalizing the Self

    Carol Fisher SorgenfreiARTICLETDR/The Drama Review1991

    GUIZHOU, YUNNAN, INNER MONGOLIA, SHANXI, MayJuly 1990 From 23 May to 9 July 1990 I traveled in China researching the state of theatre.1 My official research concerned nuoxi (ritual theatre by ethnic minorities) in southwest China; my unofficial research concerned repression by the government since the brutal crushing of the democracy movement of 1989. I went to China with the naive assumption that, like Eastern Europe in recent years, I would fin…

  • Yamato Takeru

    Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei, Takeshi UmeharaARTICLETheatre Journal1987

  • Hamlet

    Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei, William Shakespeare et al.ARTICLETheatre Journal1986

  • The Chickencoop Chinaman and the Year of the Dragon

    Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei, Frank Chin et al.ARTICLEAsian Theatre Journal1985

  • Japanese Cultural Influences on American Poetry and Drama

    Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei, Hazel DurnellARTICLEAsian Theatre Journal1985

  • King Lear

    Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei, William Shakespeare et al.ARTICLETheatre Journal1985