"A formal approach to anime rethinks globalization and transnationality under neoliberalism"--. "Anime has become synonymous with Japanese culture, but its global reach raises a perplexing question--what happens when anime is produced outside of Japan? Who actually makes anime,…
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The story of filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki's life and work, including his significant impact on Japan and the world. "A thirtieth-century toxic jungle, a bathhouse for tired gods, a red-haired fish girl, and a furry woodland spirit--what do these have in common? They all spring from…
"In this ethnographic study of Otaku-- a loose category referring to intense fans of Japanese animation, games, and comics-- conducted in Akihabara, the electronics-turned-pop-culture neighborhood of Tokyo, author Patrick Galbraith traces the evolving relationships of mostly mal…
A historical construction. Copycat Japan -- The West and the invention of creation -- The denial, rejection, and sublimation of imitation -- No poaching -- Seen from Japan -- The logic of reflection in Nakai Masakazu -- A new place for imitation. Kishida Ryusei's portraits of Re…
"Hayao Miyazaki's career in animation has made him famous as not only the greatest director of animated features in Japan, the man behind classics as My Neighbour Totoro (1988) and Spirited Away (2001), but also as one of the most influential animators in the world, providing in…
Anime: A Critical Introduction maps the genres that have thrived within Japanese animation culture, and shows how a wide range of commentators have made sense of anime through discussions of its generic landscape. From the battling robots that define the mecha genre through to S…
Since 1945, three narratives have dominated Japan’s postwar memory landscape: the heroic narrative, the victim narrative, and the perpetrator narrative. There are few places in Japanese public discourse demonstrating an engagement with the gray areas between the narratives. What…
Over the past few decades, scholars of fan studies have been engaged with questions of capital and consumerism in fandom— with writers such as Henry Jenkins and his canonical Textual Poachers investigating the ways in which fan-production can challenge or critique existing capit…
In my five years playing the shakuhachi (the traditional Japanese bamboo flute), I have noticed that with increasing frequency, people come up to me with new and interesting ways in which they associate the sound of the instrument. The traditional association—and the reason I wa…
Few science fiction or fantasy franchises have seen the popular reception that Dragon Ball and its sequels has had and yet, its appearance in academic discourse has been left wanting. This dissertation attempts an initial in-depth analysis of the story of Dragon Ball and its seq…
O Japão exibe uma cultura multifacetada, com tradições milenares. Embora tenha raízes na cultura chinesa, a distância geográfica permitiu ao Japão a construção de um modelo cultural diferenciado e cujas marcas persistem mesmo com a característica dinâmica do povo de adaptar-se à…
