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Pop with Gods, Shakespeare, and AI “Iris Tuan’s book is wide ranging in scope and diversity, examining theatre, music, film and television productions from both Western and Asian countries. Tuan also surveys an extensive range of critical and theoretical perspectives, especially from performance studies and popular cultural studies, to offer context for her descriptions of the many different works. Some of her examples are well-known (Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, Disney’s The Lion King) while others little known outside their place of origin (such as the Hakka Theatre of Taiwan)—all are approached by the author with enthusiasm.” —Susan Bennett, Professor of English, University of Calgary, Canada “Tuan takes us through multiple examples of contemporary popular performance in theatre/film/TV ranging from “high” art sources (Shakespeare or Journey to the West in films, Hirata’s robotic theatre experiments) to “low” (Taiwanese TV soap operas Hakka Theatre: Roseki and Story of Yangxi Palace, Korean film Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds). The reader moves at a speed-dating pace through contemporary culture production and interpretive theories, encountering significant works, controversies (i.e., yellow face), and conundrums selected from China, Korea, Japan and the U.S. and filtered through a Taiwanese female gaze.” —Kathy Foley, Professor of Theatre Arts, University of California Santa Cruz, USA

Iris H. Tuan

Pop with Gods, Shakespeare, and AI Popular Film, (Musical) Theatre, and TV Drama​

Iris H. Tuan National Chiao Tung University Jhubei, Taiwan

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