Mangatopia : essays on manga and anime in the modern world / Timothy Perper and Martha Cornog, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cornog, Martha.

Perper, Timothy, 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animated films--Japan--History and criticism.

Animated films.

Animated television programs--Japan--History and criticism.

Animated television programs.

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

Comic books, strips, etc.

Popular culture--Japanese influences.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 p.)

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : Libraries Unlimited, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides fascinating insights on what Japanese manga and anime mean to artists, audiences, and fans in the United States and elsewhere, covering topics that range from fantasy to sex to politics.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction to a Semiotic Revolution: It May Not Be Kansas Anymore, but It Is the Kansai; Part I: Art in Contexts; Chapter 1: Chikae Ide, the Queen of Japanese Ladies' Comics: Her Life and Manga; Introduction; Her Early Days; Ide's Debut in Girls' Comics; Ide's Family Life; Ladies' Comics; Conclusion; Chapter 2: Films on Paper: Cinematic Narrative in Gekiga; Looking Away: The Pillow Shot in Cinema; Looking Around: The Aspect-to-Aspect Transition; Cinematic Narrative in Manga; A Brief History of Gekiga

The Aspect-to-Aspect Transition in GekigaFilms on Paper; Chapter 3: Dr. Tezuka's Ontology Laboratory and the Discovery of Japan; Stories as Equipment for Living; Geopolitics: What Is Japan?; The Ontology Lab; Primordial Scenes; Parade of the Creatures; Varieties of the Human; Radiation and Artifice in the Building of Worlds; At the Core: Grief and Loss; Things to Come: Astro Boy and Beyond; Chapter 4: Heirs and Graces.Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit in the Realm of Japanese Fantasy; Fantastic Frontiers; Beyond the Horizon; Folkloric Fantasy; Part II: Fanships and Art

Chapter 5: Cosplay, Drag, and the Performance of AbjectionCos~: Shojo Style Emerges; ~Play: Performativity; ""I""-Dentity; Chapter 6: Love through a Different Lens: Japanese Homoerotic Manga through the Eyes of American Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Other Sexualities Readers; U.S. and Japanese Comics with GLBTQ Representation; Surveying GLBTQ Readers in the United States; Conclusion; Chapter 7: Girls Doing Boys Doing Boys: Boys' Love, Masculinity, and Sexual Identities; Presence; Beginnings; Opposition; Valuing Indistinctness; Ungendering Masculinity; An Epistemological Break

Japanese Culture: For Japanese Only?""When You Assume . . .""; American Fans and Their Preferences; Voices of Diverse American Fandom; Themes in Question; Chapter 9: Manga from Right to Left; Recent Events, Shifting Positions; The Future of Japan's Past; History from the Right and Manga Conventions; History from the Left; Fiction from the Mainstream; Conclusion; Chapter 10: All Life Is Genocide: The Philosophical Pessimism of Osamu Tezuka; Karma out of Time; War of Nature; Dangerous Exception; Aggression and Nostalgia; Rebellion and Acceptance; Ambassador of Peace; Impossible Peace

Accepting Authentic PessimismChapter 11: Believe in Comics: Forms of Expression in Barefoot Gen; History and Manga Expression; Biopolitics and Trauma; The Plastic Line; Cartoon and Mechanical Projection; Chapter 12: Cultural Politics of J-Culture and "Soft Power": Tentative Remarks from a European Perspective; Transnational Bonds Based on Manga and Anime: Viewpoints; Transnationalism and Nationalism; Proximities and Commonalities; Odorless Cultures, Fragrant Cultures, and Perfumed Cultures; The Odor of Anime

The Perception of Anime and Manga in Europe as Conditioned by the Understanding of Japan

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613303530

9781283303538

1283303531

9781591589099

1591589096

OCLC:

759597788