| Description |
1 online resource (360 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Manga and genres -- Manga: a historical overview / Jean-Marie Bouissou -- An overview of manga genres / Mio Bryce and Jason Davis -- What boys will be: a study of shōnen manga / Angela Drummond-Mathews -- The "beautiful boy" in Japanese girls' manga / Mark McLelland -- Shōjo manga in Japan and abroad / Jennifer Prough -- Manga in depth -- Oishinbo's adventures in eating: food, communication, and culture inJapanese comics / Lorie Brau -- Osamu Tezuka's Gekiga: behind the mask of manga / Philip Brophy -- A look at a Hikawa Kyōko's Kanata kara / Mio Bryce -- The power of truth: gender and sexuality in manga / Tania Darlington and Sara Cooper -- The reluctant messiah: Miyazaki Hayao's Nausicaä of the valley of the wind manga / Marc Hairston -- Reading manga -- Japanese visual language: the structure of manga / Neil Cohn -- International singularity in sequential art: the graphic novel in the United States, Europe, and Japan / N.C. Christopher Couch -- The manga polysystem: what fans want, fans get / James Rampant -- Manga in the world -- Hybrid manga: implications for the global knowledge economy / Jason Bainbridge and Craig Norris -- Manga in Europe: a short study of market and fandom / Jean-Marie Bouissou, Marco Pellitteri, and Bernd Dolle-Weinkauff with Ariane Beldi -- Manga Shakespeare / Emma Hayley -- The manga phenomenon in America / Wendy Goldberg -- Manga in East Asia / John A. Lent -- The manga publishing scene in Europe / Paul M. Malone -- Globalizing manga: from Japan to Hong Kong and beyond / Wendy Siuyi Wong |
| Summary |
Once upon a time, one had to read Japanese in order to enjoy manga.€ Today manga has become a global phenomenon, attracting audiences in North America, Europe, Africa, and Australia.€ The style has become so popular, in fact, that in the US and UK publishers are appropriating the manga style in a variety of print material, resulting in the birth of harlequin mangas which combine popular romance fiction titles with manga aesthetics.€ Comic publishers such as Dark Horse and Viz are translating Japanese "classics", such as Fruits Basket, into English.€ And of course it wasn't |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism
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Popular culture -- Japanese influences.
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Literary studies: general.
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HUMOR -- Form -- Comic Strips & Cartoons.
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Comic books, strips, etc.
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Popular culture -- Japanese influences
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Manga
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Mangas -- Anthologies.
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Mangas -- Critique et interprétation.
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Manga.
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Tecknade serier -- historia -- Japan.
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Manga.
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Tecknade serier -- historia -- Japan.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Johnson-Woods, Toni
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| ISBN |
9781441107879 |
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1441107878 |
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9781628928136 |
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1628928131 |
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