Book Launch at the University of Chicago: Shakespeare and East Asia

How did Kurosawa influence George Lucas' Star Wars? Why do critics repeatedly use the adjective Shakespearean to describe Gong Joon-ho's film Parasite (2019)? How do East Asian cinema and theatre portray vocal disability and transgender figures?
The University of Chicago East Asia by the Book series is proud to present a book launch of Alexa Alice Joubin’s Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford University Press) on May 21, 2021. The talk is chaired by Haun Saussy. Michael Saenger served as respondent. Joubin's lecture was followed by a live Q&A.
Shakespeare and East Asia identifies four themes that distinguish post-1950s East Asian cinemas and theatres from works in other parts of the world: Japanese formalistic innovations in sound and spectacle; reparative adaptations from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong; the politics of gender and reception of films and productions in South Korea and the UK; and multilingual, diaspora works in Singapore and the UK.
These adaptations are reshaping debates about the relationship between East Asia and Europe, and this book reveals deep connections among Asian and Anglophone performances. The book is part of Oxford Shakespeare Topics, a series of 50 volumes on the playwright.
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00:00:13 Saussy Introduces Joubin and Saenger
00:05:08 Japanese Takarazuka Twelfth Night and Singaporean Film Chicken Rice War
00:07:30 De-colonizing Asian studies and Shakespeare studies
00:08:36 Five Things to Know about Global Shakespeare
00:08:53 Gendered Pronouns in Kurosawa
00:11:46 Adaptation as Social Reparation
00:13:49 Video Clip of One Husband Too Many
00:17:10 Transgender Performance
00:21:42 Racial Difference through Accents
00:24:50 Video Clip of Chicken Rice War
00:28:09 Deep Connections Among Adaptations
00:32:22 Conclusion
00:32:42 Michael Seanger's Commentary
00:41:53 Q&A: Theatre after the Pandemic
00:47:19 Q&A: Organizing Principles of the Monograph
00:50:26 Q&A: Aesthetics and Politics / Kunqu Opera
00:55:03 Q&A: Remediation, Reparation, and Adaptation
00:59:38 Q&A: Non-White Authors and Ethnic Meanings
01:00:47 Q&A: Compulsory Realpolitik
01:13:03 Q&A: Conclusion