Japanese Visual Culture Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime

Name: Japanese Visual Culture Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime
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ISBN: 9780765616029

ISBN-10: 0765616025

ISBN-13: 9780765616029

Edition: 2008

Authors: Mark W. MacWilliams, Frederik L. Schodt

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Born of Japan's cultural encounter with Western entertainment media, manga (comic books or graphic novels) and anime (animated films) are two of the most universally recognized forms of contemporary mass culture. Because they tell stories through visual imagery, they vault over language barriers. Well suited to electronic transmission and distributed by Japan's globalized culture industry, they have become a powerful force in both the mediascape and the marketplace.This volume brings together an international group of scholars from many specialties to probe the richness and subtleties of these deceptively simple cultural forms. The contributors explore the historical, cultural,…

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List price: $60.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 4/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.06" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Foreword: Japan's New Visual Culture



Introduction




Manga in Japanese History




Contemporary Anime in Japanese Pop Culture




Characters, Themes, and Narrative Patterns in the Manga of Osamu Tezuka




From Metropolis to Metoroporisu: The Changing Role of the Robot in Japanese and Western Cinema




Opening the Closed World of Shojo Manga




Situating the Shojo in Shojo Manga: Teenage Girls, Romance Comics, and Contemporary Japanese Culture




Intellectuals, Cartoons, and Nationalism During the Russo-Japanese War




Framing Manga: On Narratives of the Second World War in Japanese Manga, 1957-1977




Aum Shinrikyo and a Panic about Manga and Anime




Medieval Genealogies of Manga Horror




The Utopian "Power to Live": What the Miyazaki Phenomenon Signifies




Heart of Japaneseness: History and Nostalgia in Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away




National History as Otaku Fantasy: Satoshi Kon's Millennium Actress




Considering Manga Discourse: Location, Ambiguity, Historicity



Bibliography


About the Contributors


Index