The Glass Ceiling of Artistic Innovation – Causes and Conditions. Case Study: Shūji Terayama’s Den'en ni shisu (1974)
The Glass Ceiling of Artistic Innovation – Causes and Conditions. Case Study: Shūji Terayama’s Den'en ni shisu (1974)

Summary/Abstract: This study is focused on the politics of gender of avant-garde reflected in an experimental film by renowned Japanese artist Shūji Terayama. I address the possibility of innovation and revolution within the limits of a patriarchal paradigm. The primary framework of my interpretation consists of the poststructuralist literary analysis of scholar Susan Suleiman on European avant-garde (1990), but also critical theory by Henry A. Giroux and Taro Nettleton. Based on this approach, I reconstruct the causes and conditions which assisted the specific ideology displayed by this film.

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