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Title Japanese visual culture : explorations in the world of manga and anime / edited by Mark W. MacWilliams ; foreword by Frederik L. Schodt
Published Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 352 pages) : illustrations
Contents Foreword : Japan's new visual culture / Frederik L. Schodt -- Introduction / Mark W. MacWilliams -- Manga in Japanese History / Kinko Ito -- Contemporary Anime in Japanese Pop Culture / Gilles Poitras -- Characters, Themes, and Narrative Patterns in the Manga of Osamu Tezuka / Susanne Phillips -- From Metropolis to Metoroporisu : The Changing Role of the Robot in Japanese and Western Cinema / Lee Makela -- Opening the Closed World of Shojo Manga / Mizuki Takahashi -- Situating the Shojo in Shojo Manga : Teenage Girls, Romance Comics, and Contemporary Japanese Culture / Deborah Shamoon -- Intellectuals, Cartoons, and Nationalism During the Russo-Japanese War / Yulia Mikhailova -- Framing Manga: On Narratives of the Second World War in Japanese Manga, 1957-1977 / Eldad Nakar -- Aum Shinrikyo and a Panic about Manga and Anime / Rich Gardner -- Medieval Genealogies of Manga and Anime Horror / Raj Pandey -- The Utopian "Power to Live": The Significance of the Miyazaki Phenomenon / Hiroshi Yamanaka -- Heart of Japaneseness: History and Nostalgia in Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away / Shiro Yoshioka -- National History as Otaku Fantasy: Satoshi Kon's Millennium Actress / Melek Ortabasi -- Considering Manga Discourse: Location, Ambiguity, Historicity / Jaqueline Berndt -- Bibliography
Summary This illustrated volume brings together an international group of scholars from many specialities to explore the richness and subtleties of Japanese manga (comic books or graphic novels) and anime (animated films)--and how they have become two of the most universally recognized forms of contemporary mass culture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-334) and index
Notes English
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Subject Comic books, strips, etc. -- Japan -- History and criticism
Animated films -- Japan -- History and criticism
Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Manga -- Erotica.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Manga -- Fantasy.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Manga -- Romance.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Manga -- Gay & Lesbian.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Manga -- Media Tie-In.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Manga -- Science Fiction.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Manga -- Horror.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Manga -- Historical Fiction.
Animated films
Comic books, strips, etc.
Zeichentrickfilm
Animationsfilm
Manga
Society.
Japan
Japan
Genre/Form Electronic book
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Macwilliams, Mark Wheeler, 1952-
LC no. 2007025425
ISBN 9780765622358
0765622351
1282119370
9781282119376
9781317467007
1317467000
1315703157
9781315703152
9786612119378
6612119373