When 'Spirited Away' won the Oscar for best animated film in 2002, Hayao Miyazaki proved that anime was much more than cartoons for children or a ploy to sell trading cards. Susan Napier demonstrates how anime can be used to explore important social and cultural issues in a soph…
Japanese anime plays a major role in modern popular visual culture and aesthetics, yet this is the first study which sets out to put today & rsquo;s anime in historical context by tracking the visual links between Edo- and Meiji-period painters and the post-war period animation …
The Oxford handbook of Japanese cinema
This text provides a multifaceted single-volume account of Japanese cinema. It addresses productive debates about what Japanese cinema is, where Japanese cinema is, as well as what and where Japanese cinema studies is, at the so-called period of crisis of national boundary under…
The Oxford handbook of Japanese cinema
The Oxford handbook of Japanese cinema
This text provides a multifaceted single-volume account of Japanese cinema. It addresses productive debates about what Japanese cinema is, where Japanese cinema is, as well as what and where Japanese cinema studies is, at the so-called period of crisis of national boundary under…
This text provides a multifaceted single-volume account of Japanese cinema. It addresses productive debates about what Japanese cinema is, where Japanese cinema is, as well as what and where Japanese cinema studies is, at the so-called period of crisis of national boundary under…
This text provides a multifaceted single-volume account of Japanese cinema. It addresses productive debates about what Japanese cinema is, where Japanese cinema is, as well as what and where Japanese cinema studies is, at the so-called period of crisis of national boundary under…
"From Rashomon (1950) to Ran (1985), Kurosawa set new boundaries for world cinema. His career spanned on of Japan's most dramatic centuries and produced a string of masterpieces ... In the first major documentary to be made since his death in 1998, Kurosawa's family and colleagu…
