One of Takarazuka Revue's most successful - and impactful - performances, "Gone with the Wind" has been repeatedly re-staged since its Takarazuka Revue premiere in 1977. This video focuses on its last iteration from 2013 by cosmos troupe which not only turns "Gone with the Wind" into Rhett Butler's life story, but also promotes a "masculinity of vulnerability" in univocal contrast to Scarlett O'Hara's "failed femininity".
Maria Grajdian @ The School of Love
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0:00 1. Introduction: Popular Culture and "Enlightened Communities"
14:25 2. Takarazuka Revue's Cultural Constructions of Masculinity
32:55 3. Gone with the Wind: Dialectical Reformulations of Masculinity
43:40 4. Conclusion: Towards a New Sense of Masculinity
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