Samuel L Leiter

Biographic Data

ID235767
NAMESamuel L Leiter
GIVEN NAMESSamuel L
FAMILY NAMELeiter
SIGNATURELEITER S L
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS40
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT40
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX1

  • Wartime colonial and traditional theatre

    Samuel L LeiterCHAPTERHistory of Japanese Theatre2016

    The lead-up to World War II (sometimes referred to as “the Fifteen-Year War”) dates back to the “Manchurian Incident” of 1931, but Japan's aggressive expansionist activities originated much earlier. Japan abandoned its centuries-old exclusionary policies with the arrival of Commodore Perry's “Black Ships” in 1853; other ambitious European powers soon followed. Inspired by the large-scale expansionism of the West during the late nineteenth century…

  • A Kabuki Reader: History and Performance: History and Performance

    Samuel L LeiterBOOKKabuki Reader2015

  • Kabuki Reader: History and Performance

    Samuel L LeiterBOOKKabuki Reader2015

  • Kabuki at the Crossroads: Years of Crisis, 1952-1965

    Samuel L LeiterBOOKKabuki at the Crossroads2013

    Samuel L. Leiter's Kabuki at the Crossroads: Years of Crisis, 1952-1965 is the first detailed account of Japan's kabuki theatre in the years immediately following the end of the Occupation. It examines every aspect of this traditional theatre as it struggled to maintain its position in a rapidly changing postwar entertainment environment. It covers acting rivalries, major productions, theatres, international tours, the convention of men playing f…

  • Kabuki at the Crossroads: Years of Crisis, 1952-1965

    Samuel L LeiterBOOKKabuki at the crossroads years of…2013

    Samuel L. Leiter's Kabuki at the Crossroads: Years of Crisis, 1952-1965 is the first detailed account of Japan's kabuki theatre in the years immediately following the end of the Occupation. It examines every aspect of this traditional theatre as it struggled to maintain its position in a rapidly changing postwar entertainment environment. It covers acting rivalries, major productions, theatres, international tours, the convention of men playing f…

  • Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre: [2 Volumes]

    Samuel L Leiter, Samuel LeiterBOOKEncyclopedia of Asian Theatre2006

    From puppets to living players and musical speech to colloquial prose, Asian theatre is a rich world of contrasting expressions. While it has thrived for centuries and embodies the folk traditions of the Asian people, it also reflects contemporary concerns and innovative theatrical practices. At a time when Asia is of tremendous importance to the West, its theatre is a key to understanding its culture as well as the heritage of Asian Americans. T…

  • The Man Who Saved Kabuki: Faubion Bowers and Theatre Censorship in Occupied Japan

    Jean-Jacques Tschudin, Jean‐jacques Tschudin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2002

    As part of its programme to promote democracy in Japan after World War II, the American Occupation, headed by General Douglas MacArthur, undertook to enforce rigid censorship policies aimed at eliminating all traces of feudal thought in media and entertainment, including kabuki. Faubion Bowers (1917-1999), who served as personal aide and interpreter to MacArthur during the Occupation, was appalled by the censorship policies and anticipated the ex…

  • The Man Who Saved Kabuki: Faubion Bowers and Theatre Censorship in Occupied Japan

    Cody Poulton, M Cody Poulton et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs2002

  • From Gay to Gei: The Onnagata and the Creation of Kabuki's Female Characters

    Samuel L LeiterARTICLEComparative drama1999

    From Gay to Gei: The Onnagata and the Creation ofKabukfs Female Characters Samuel L. Leiter From 1629 to 1877, women were officially forbidden to act in Japan's kabuki theater, which—under the leadership of a former shrine priestess named Okuni—they had founded in 1603. From 1629 on, male actors, the onnagata, played women's roles. The reasons for the banning of actresses have been frequently recounted elsewhere and need not be reexamined here in…

  • Kabuki Paintings by Takahashi Sachio: A Note

    Samuel L LeiterARTICLEAsian Theatre Journal1998

    Among the ranks of kabuki actors are many who never advance to important roles and continue throughout their careers to play tiny supporting parts. Their skills and knowledge are essential to the smooth continuance of this traditional form, but their names are known only to cognoscenti. Their roles usually consist of little more than being fodder for a samurai's weapons in fight scenes or sitting in an undifferentiated line with others of the sam…

  • New Kabuki Encyclopedia: A Revised Edition of Kabuki Jiten

    James R Brandon, Samuel L LeiterARTICLEAsian Theatre Journal1998

    Preface The Encyclopedia Appendix I: Brief Chronology of Kabuki Appendix II: Major Plays Appendix III: Popularized or Alternate Play Titles Appendix IV: Actors' Genealogies Appendix V: List of -Yago in Use Today Selected Bibliography Subject Guide to Main Entries Index

  • Busu ("Poison Sugar")

    Samuel L Leiter, Akira Shigeyama International ProjectsARTICLEAsian Theatre Journal1998

  • The Stars Who Created Kabuki: Their Lives, Loves and Legacy

    Samuel L Leiter, Laurence R Kominz et al.ARTICLEAsian Theatre Journal1998

    Kabuki is widely recognized as one of the world's foremost theatrical arts. Its enduring popularity is the legacy of pioneering actors who forged new styles and passed them on to later generations. The Stars Who Created Kabuki focuses on the lives and careers of the three most prominent of these formative figures.Ichikawa Danjuro (1660-1704) established the style called aragoto, or Wild acting, used to portray samurai and violent gods. Sakata Toj…

  • Shakespeare East and West

    Samuel L Leiter, Minoru Fujita et al.ARTICLEAsian Theatre Journal1998

  • The Kanamaru-za: Japan's Oldest Kabuki Theatre

    Samuel L LeiterARTICLEAsian Theatre Journal1997

    Tucked away in the small town of Kotohira, Shikoku, is Japan 's oldest kabuki theatre, the Kanamaru-za, built in the 1830s and recently restored. It is now the site of a brief, annual kabuki festival, where major stars perform in conditions like those when the theatre was new. This article offers a historical introduction to the playhouse and, with groundplans and nearly forty photographs by the author, takes the reader on a guided tour of the pl…

  • Noh and Kabuki: Staging Japanese Theatre

    Samuel L Leiter, Jacqueline Desirea Mitchell et al.ARTICLEAsian Theatre Journal1996

  • The Cambridge Guide to Asian Theatre

    Samuel L Leiter, James R BrandonARTICLEAsian Theatre Journal1995

    Introduction. Bangladesh. Burma. Cambodia. China. Hong Kong. India. Indonesia. Japan. Korea. Laos. Malaysia. Nepal. Oceania. Pakistan. Philippines. Singapore. Sri Lanka. Thailand. Vietnam. Index to artists and genres

  • Japan on Stage: Japanese Concepts of Beauty as Shown in the Traditional Theatre

    Samuel L Leiter, Kawatake Toshio et al.ARTICLEAsian Theatre Journal1993

  • The Hong Kong Repertory Theatre: An Interview with Daniel Yang

    Samuel L Leiter, Daniel Yang et al.ARTICLEAsian Theatre Journal1993

    Dr. Daniel S. P. Yang was born in China and raised in Taiwan, where he received his bachelor's degree. He earned his MFA in directing from the University of Hawaii and his Ph.D. in Asian theatre history from the University of Wisconsin. In 1967, he joined the faculty of the University of Colorado's Department of Theatre and Dance, where he remained for over two decades; in 1978 he was elected chairman. Ultimately, he gained renown as a leading sc…

  • Theater as Music: The Bunraku Puppet Play "Mt. Imo and Mt. Se: An Exemplary Tale of Womanly Virtue"

    Samuel L Leiter, C Andrew Gerstle et al.ARTICLEAsian Theatre Journal1992

  • A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology: The Secret Art of the Performer

    Samuel L Leiter, Eugenio Barba et al.ARTICLEAsian Theatre Journal1992

  • The International Symposium on Traditional Theatres of Asia: Beijing, 1991

    Samuel L LeiterARTICLEAsian Theatre Journal1992

    In December 1991, two and a half years after the suppression of liberal dissent in Tiananmen Square, the Chinese Theatre Association (CTA) held an International Symposium on Traditional Theatres of Asia in Beijing. The symposium attracted artists and scholars from such nations as England, Japan, Sweden, France, India, Bangladesh, Switzerland, the United States, North and South Korea, Myanmar, Iran, Cameroon, Mauritius, Vietnam, Thailand, the Phil…

  • Kabuki in Modern Japan: Mayama Seika and His Plays

    Samuel L Leiter, Brian PowellARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1992

  • "Kumagai's Battle Camp": Form and Tradition in Kabuki Acting

    Samuel L LeiterARTICLEAsian Theatre Journal1991

    Unlike the presentation of a Japanese kabuki play, when the lights come up on a production of a Western classic, chances are no one in the audience will have any idea of what they are going to see. Although certain traditions are associated with the canon, the specifics of production are newly invented for each mounting. In the case of Shakespeare's Henry V, for example, knowledgeable audiences are concerned with many factors: the play's relative…

  • Kabuki, Eighteen Traditional Dramas

    Samuel L Leiter, Kawatake Toshio et al.ARTICLETheatre Journal1987