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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Notes on the Contributors viii
5. Acknowledgements xi
6. Preface: Light and Shadows in the Life of Tanaka Kinuyo xii
7. Introduction: Onna Monogatari 1
8. 1 Dancer, Doctor, Maiden, Mother: Tanaka Kinuyo’s Early Star Image 36
9. 2 Meetings and Partings: How Tanaka’s Films End 57
10. 3 Tanaka and Mizoguchi: Politics and Rebellion in the Early Post-war Era 82
11. 4 The First Female Gaze at Post-war Japanese Women: Tanaka Kinuyo, Film Director 104
12. 5 Kinuyo and Sumie: When Women Write and Direct 126
13. 6 Female Authorship, Subjectivity and Colonial Memory in Tanaka Kinuyo’s The Wandering Princess (1960) 155
14. 7 Panpan Girls, Lesbians and Post-war Women’s Communities: Girls of Dark (1961) as Women’s Cinema 187
15. Index 204