Japanese visual culture : explorations in the world of manga and anime / edited by Mark W. MacWilliams ; foreword by Frederik L. Schodt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Macwilliams, Mark Wheeler, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comic books, strips, etc--Japan--History and criticism.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Animated films.

Japan.

Animated films--Japan--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

xi, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [2008]

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.

Notes:

"An East Gate book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-334) and index.

ISBN:

9780765616012

0765616017

9780765616029

OCLC:

144773808