Origins
"The essays brought together in Mechademia 9 lead us to understand the extent to which 'Japan' might be seen as an idea generated by anime, manga, and other texts rather than the other way around. What is it that manga and anime produce that no other medium can precisely duplicate? Is anime its own medium or a genre of animation--or something in between? And how must we adapt existing critical modes in order to read these new kinds of texts? While the authors begin with similar questions about …
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- Full title :Origins / Frenchy Lunning, editor.
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"The essays brought together in Mechademia 9 lead us to understand the extent to which 'Japan' might be seen as an idea generated by anime, manga, and other texts rather than the other way around. What is it that manga and anime produce that no other medium can precisely duplicate? Is anime its own medium or a genre of animation--or something in between? And how must we adapt existing critical modes in order to read these new kinds of texts? While the authors begin with similar questions about the roots of Japanese popular culture and media, they invoke a wide range of theoretical work in the search for answers, including feminist criticism, disability studies, poststructuralist textual criticism, postcolonialism, art history, film theory, phenomenology, and more. Richly provocative and insightful, Mechademia 9 both enacts and resists the pursuit of fixed starting points, inspiring further creative investigation of this global artistic phenomenon."--
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- Publication Date:©2014
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Minnesota Press
- Place of Publication:Minneapolis
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2014
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xv, 318 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781452943664, 1452943664, 9781452943657, 1452943656
- oclc:ocn894271581
- LC Classification:NC1766.J3
- Dewey Decimal:741.595105
Table of Contents
Dedication to Dr. John A. Lent -- Introduction / Christopher Bolton -- Subjects of desire. Hagio Moto's nuclear manga and promise of eco-feminist desire / Margherita Long -- Where is my place in the world? Early Shōjo manga portrayals of lesbianism / Fujimoto Yukari, translated by Lucy Fraser -- Between men, androids, and robots: Assaying mechanical man in Meiji literature and visual culture / Seth Jacobowitz -- Bodies in motion. Carbon as creation: On Tsuji Naoyuki's charcoal anime / Paul Roquet -- Powers of (dis)ability: Toward a bodily origin in Mushishi / Steven R. Anderson -- South Korea and the sub-empire of anime: Kinesthetics of subcontracted animation production /Joon Yang Kim -- Boundaries. Japanese cartoon films / Imamura Taihei, translated by Thomas Lamarre -- From street corner to living room: Domestication of TV culture and national time/narrative / Shun'ya Yoshimi, translated by Jodie Beck -- Hyperbolic nationalism: South Korea's shadow animation industry / Kukhee Choo -- Conceptualizing anime and the database fantasyscape / Brian Ruh -- Rescripting history. Rebranding Himiko, the shaman queen of ancient history / Laura Miller -- Tezuka's Buddha at the Tokyo Nationa…
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