| Description |
xxii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction. Robot Ghosts And Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime / Christopher Bolton, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. and Takayuki Tatsumi -- Pt. I Prose Science Fiction -- 1 Horror And Machines In Prewar Japan: The Mechanical Uncanny in Yumeno Kyusaku's Dogura magura / Miri Nakamura -- 2 Has The Empire Sunk Yet?: The Pacific in Japanese Science Fiction / Thomas Schnellbacher -- 3 Alien Spaces and Alien Bodies in Japanese Women's Science Fiction / Kotani Mari -- 4 SF As Hamlet: Science Fiction and Philosophy / Azuma Hiroki -- 5 Tsutsui Yasutaka and the Muliimedia Performance of Authorship / William O. Gardner -- Pt. II Science Fiction Animation -- 6 When The Machines Stop: Fantasy, Reality, and Terminal Identity in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Serial Experiments: Lain / Susan J. Napier -- 7 The Mecha's Blind Spot: Patlabor 2 and the Phenomenology of Anime / Christopher Bolton -- 8 Words Of Alienation, Words Of Flight: Loanwords in Science Fiction Anime / Naoki Chiba and Hiroko Chiba -- 9 Sex And The Single Cyborg: Japanese Popular Culture Experiments in Subjectivity / Sharalyn Orbaugh -- 10 Invasion Of The Woman Snatchers: The Problem of A-Life and the Uncanny in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within / Livia Monnet -- 11 Otaku Sexuality / Saito Tamaki -- Afterword. A Very Soft Time Machine: From Translation to Transfiguration / Takayuki Taisumi |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Science fiction, Japanese -- History and criticism.
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| Author |
Bolton, Christopher.
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Csicsery-Ronay, Istvan, Jr.
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Tatsumi, Takayuki, 1955-
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| LC no. |
2007027032 |
| ISBN |
0816649731 (hc : alk. paper) |
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081664974X (pb : alk. paper) |
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9780816649730 (hc : alk. paper) |
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9780816649747 (pb : alk. paper) |
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