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Author Brown, Steven T.

Title Tokyo cyberpunk : posthumanism in Japanese visual culture / Steven T. Brown
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 256 pages) : illustrations
Contents Posthumanism after Akira. Reading rhizomatically -- Machinic desires, desiring machines, and consensual hallucinations -- Machinic desires : Hans Bellmer's dolls and the technological uncanny in Ghost in the shell 2: innocence. An overview of innocence -- "Once their strings are cut, they easily crumble" -- From puppets to automata -- The uncanny mansion -- The dolls of Hans Bellmer -- Bellmer/Oshii -- On the innocence of dolls, angels, and becoming-animal -- Desiring machines: biomechanoid eros and other. Techno-fetishes in Tetsuo: the iron man and its precursors -- The birth of sexy robots -- After Metropolis, before Tetsuo: un chien andalou -- Giger's biomechanoids, erotomechanics, and metal fetishists -- The "regular-size" monsters of Matango -- Mutating from the inside out: The fly -- "Long live the new flesh": Videodrome -- The tentacle motif from Hokusai to Tetsuo -- Envisioning the machine-city after Blade runner -- Confrontations with the salaryman model: resisting hegemonic masculinity and state-sponsored capitalism -- Coda: co-opting Tetsuo in Tetsuo II: body hammer -- Consensual hallucinations and the phantoms of electronic presence in Kairo and Avalon. Letting in ghosts, shutting out the sun -- Into the mise en abyme: spectral flows and the forbidden room -- The human stain: suicide in the shadow of Hiroshima -- Avalon and "borderline cinema" -- The society of the spectacle -- The surrealism of (virtually) everyday life -- "Welcome to class real" -- Conclusion. Software in a body: critical posthumanism and Serial experiments Lain. A shōjo named lain -- E-mail from the dead -- Doppelgängers in cyberspace -- Desiring disembodiment -- The question of resistance
Summary Engaging some of the most canonical and thought-provoking anime, manga, and science fiction films, Tokyo Cyberpunk offers insightful analysis of Japanese visual culture. Steven T. Brown draws new conclusions about the cultural flow of art, as well as important technological issues of the day
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-246) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Animated films -- Japan -- History and criticism
Science fiction films -- Japan -- History and criticism
Cyberpunk culture -- Japan
Literature and technology -- Japan
Comic books, strips, etc. -- Japan -- History and criticism
ART -- Performance.
ART -- Reference.
Performing Arts.
Animated films
Comic books, strips, etc.
Cyberpunk culture
Literature and technology
Science fiction films
Japan
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230110069
0230110061