The art of Miyazaki's spirited away
Provides sketches, backgrounds, and character designs from the film "Spirited away" and includes information about the making of the film as well as the screenplay.
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Approaching Anime: Genre and Subgenres -- Chapter 2: Sci Fi Anime: Cyberpunk to Steampunk -- Chapter 3: Anime's Bodies -- Chapter 4: Early Anime Histories: Japan and America -- Chapter 5: Anime, Video and the Shojo a…
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…
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…
Published to accompany the exhibition held at Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, 10 February - 6 May 2001, and then touring the United States.
"What is it about anime that is so appealing to a transnational fan base? Is the American attraction to anime similar to the popularity of previous fads of Japanese culture, like the Japonisants of fin-de-siecle France enamored of Japanese art and architecture, or the American p…