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--History and criticism.

Animated films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This illustrated volume brings together an international group of scholars from many specialities to explore the richness and subtleties of Japanese manga (comic books or graphic novels) and anime (animated films)--and how they have become two of the most universally recognized forms of contemporary mass culture.

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 (p. [311]-334) and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Japanese visual culture : explorations in the world of manga and anime

ISBN:

1-317-46699-3

1-315-70315-7

1-317-46700-0

1-282-11937-0

9786612119378

0-7656-2235-1

9781315703152

OCLC:

503447257