Cinema anime : critical engagements with Japanese animation
This collection charts the terrain of contemporary Japanese animation, one of the most explosive forms of visual culture to emerge at the crossroads of transnational cultural production in the last twenty-five years. The essays offer bold and insightful engagement with anime's concerns with gender identity, anxieties about body mutation and technological monstrosity, and apocalyptic fantasies. The contributors dismantle the distinction between "high" and "low" culture and offer compelling arguments for the value and importance of the study of anime and popular culture as a key link in the translation from the local to the global
Animated films Japan
1 online resource (viii, 248 pages) : illustrations
9781403983084, 9781403970602, 9780230606210, 9786611369712, 1403983089, 1403970602, 0230606210, 6611369716
567965026
Print version:
Screening anime / Steven T. Brown
Part I. Towards a cultural politics of anime: "Excuse me, who are you?": Performance, the gaze and the female in the works of Kon Satoshi / Susan Napier
The Americanization of anime and manga: negotiating popular culture / Antonia Levi
The advent of Meguro Empress: decoding the avant-pop anime TAMALA 2010 / Tatsumi Takayuki
Part II. Posthuman bodies in the animated imaginary: Frankenstein and the cyborg metropolis: the evolution of body and city in science fiction narratives / Sharalyn Orbaugh
Animated bodies and cybernetic selves: the Animatrix and the question of posthumanity / Carl Silvio
The robots from Takkun's head: cyborg adolescence in FLCL / Brian Ruh
Part III. Anime and the limits of cinema: The first time as farce: digital animation and the repetition of cinema / Thomas Lamarre
"Such is the contrivance of the cinematograph": Dur(anim)ation, modernity, and Edo culture in Tabaimo's animated installations / Livia Monnet
English
ezproxy.st-andrews.ac.uk Connect to e-book