| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 269 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Horror and machines in prewar Japan : the mechanical uncanny in Yumeno Kyūsaku's Dogura magura / Miri Nakamura -- Has the empire sunk yet? : the Pacific in Japanese science fiction / Thomas Schnellbächer -- Alien spaces and alien bodies in Japanese women's science fiction / Kotani Mari -- SF as Hamlet : science fiction and philosophy / Azuma Hiroki -- Tsutsui Yasutaka and the multimedia performance of authorship / William O. Gardner -- When the machines stop : fantasy, reality, and terminal identity in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Serial Experiments: Lain / Susan J. Napier -- The mecha's blind spot : Patlabor 2 and the phenomenology of anime / Christopher Bolton -- Words of alienation, words of flight : loanwords in science fiction anime / Naoki Chiba and Hiroko Chiba -- Sex and the single cyborg : Japanese popular culture experiments in subjectivity / Sharalyn Orbaugh -- Invasion of the woman snatchers : the problem of a-life and the uncanny in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within / Livia Monnet -- Otaku sexuality / Saitō Tamaki |
| Summary |
Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams is a rich exploration of the genre that connects prose science fiction to contemporary anime. Bringing together Western scholars and leading Japanese critics, this groundbreaking work traces the beginnings, evolution, and future direction of science fiction in Japan |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Science fiction, Japanese -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Science Fiction & Fantasy.
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Science fiction, Japanese
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bolton, Christopher, editor.
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Csicsery-Ronay, Istvan, Jr., editor.
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Tatsumi, Takayuki, 1955- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780816653904 |
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0816653909 |
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