Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime

Name: Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime
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ISBN: 9780816649747

ISBN-10: 081664974X

ISBN-13: 9780816649747

Edition: 2007

Authors: Christopher Bolton, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Takayuki Tatsumi, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay

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Since the end of the Second World War-and particularly over the last decade-Japanese science fiction has strongly influenced global popular culture. Unlike American and British science fiction, its most popular examples have been visual-from Gojira(Godzilla)and Astro Boyin the 1950s and 1960s to the anime masterpieces Akiraand Ghost in the Shellof the 1980s and 1990s-while little attention has been paid to a vibrant tradition of prose science fiction in Japan. nbsp; Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreamsremedies this neglect with a rich exploration of the genre that connects prose science fiction to contemporary anime. Bringing together Western scholars and leading Japanese critics, this…

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List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 11/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Christopher Bolton is Assistant Professor of Japanese at Williams College.

ISTVAN CSICSERY-RONAY JR. is a professor of English at DePauw University, where he teaches courses in world literature and science fiction. He is coeditor of the journal Science Fiction Studies and the book Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams (2007).



Introduction. Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime




Prose Science Fiction



Horror and Machines in Prewar Japan: The Mechanical Uncanny in Yumeno Kyusaku's Doguro magura




Has the Empire Sunk Yet?: The Pacific in Japanese Science Fiction




Alien Spaces and Alien Bodies in Japanese Women's Science Fiction




SF as Hamlet: Science Fiction and Philosophy




Tsutsui Yasutaka and the Multimedia Performance of Authorship




Science Fiction Animation



When the Machines Stop: Fantasy, Reality, and Terminal Identity in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Serial Experiments: Lain




The Mecha's Blind Spot: Patlabor 2 and the Phenomenology of Anime




Words of Alienation, Words of Flight: Loanwords in Science Fiction Anime




Sex and the Single Cyborg: Japanese Popular Culture Experiments in Subjectivity




Invasion of the Woman Snatchers: The Problem of A-Life and the Uncanny in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within




Otaku Sexuality



Afterword. A Very Soft Time Machine: From Translation to Transfiguration



Publication History


Contributors


Index