Pop with Gods, Shakespeare, and AI

Iris H. Tuan is Professor at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. She received her Ph.D. in Theater from UCLA and has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. Tuan’s selected publications include papers published by Asian Theatre Journal, and nine books, including Translocal Performance in Asian Theatre and Film, Intercultural Theatre: Adaptation and Representation, Western Canon in Taiwan Theatre, Alternative Theater in Taiwan, and Transnational Performance, Identity, and Mobility in Asia (edited with Ivy I-chu Chang). Tuan is the recipient of NCTU Outstanding Research Awards.

• 1 Introduction: Popular Visual Culture in Film, Theatre and TV Drama.- Part I Literature, Film, and Theatre.- 2 Shakespeare and Popular Culture: Romeo and Juliet in Film and Pop Music.- 3 Represent Afterlife and Replay Habitus: Performance via Spectacle in the Korean Film Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds.- 4 Myth and Levi-Strauss: Taiwan Musical The Classic of Mountains and Seas & Chinese Film The Monkey King: Kingdom of Women.- Part II Asian American Play, Asian Theatre, and Musical Theater.- 5 Face, Race, and Performance: Arousal by Face and Identity Transformation.- 6 Dance Tango and Sing for Revenge in Chicago and The Visit.-Part III TV Drama, Robot Theatre and AI Films.- 7 Theatre, Performance, and Popular Story of Yanxi Palace .- 8 Hakka Theatre: Roseki Taipei Singer.- 9 Robot Theatre and AI Films.- 10 Conclusion.

“Pop with Gods, Shakespeare, and AI is a very ambitious book. Its great virtue lies in its bringing together performance works from a variety of media — the author herself lists Western Literature, Chinese Literature, East Asian Studies, Shakespearean Research, Broadway Musicals, Theater Performance, Film Studies and theories of popular culture. … The 64 color photos are uniformly excellent and make me wonder why I don’t go to the theater more often.” (Bradley Winterton, taipeitimes.com, April 21, 2022)