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Robot ghosts and wired dreams : Japanese science fiction from origins to anime / Christopher Bolton, Istvan Csicsery-Rony, Jr., and Takayuki Tatsumi, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Japanese fiction.
- Science fiction, Japanese--History and criticism.
- Science fiction, Japanese.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 269 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- 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 Boy in the 1950s and 1960s to the anime masterpieces Akira and Ghost in the Shell of the 1980s and 1990s-while little attention has been paid to a vibrant tradition of prose science fiction in Japan. Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams remedies this neglect with a rich exploration of the g
- Contents:
- Horror and machines in prewar Japan : the mechanical uncanny in Yumeno Kyūsaku's Dogura magura / Miri Nakamura
- Has the empire sunk yet? : the Pacific in Japanese science fiction / Thomas Schnellbächer
- Alien spaces and alien bodies in Japanese women's science fiction / Kotani Mari
- SF as Hamlet : science fiction and philosophy / Azuma Hiroki
- Tsutsui Yasutaka and the multimedia performance of authorship / William O. Gardner
- When the machines stop : fantasy, reality, and terminal identity in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Serial Experiments: Lain / Susan J. Napier
- The mecha's blind spot : Patlabor 2 and the phenomenology of anime / Christopher Bolton
- Words of alienation, words of flight : loanwords in science fiction anime / Naoki Chiba and Hiroko Chiba
- Sex and the single cyborg : Japanese popular culture experiments in subjectivity / Sharalyn Orbaugh
- Invasion of the woman snatchers : the problem of a-life and the uncanny in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within / Livia Monnet
- Otaku sexuality / Saitō Tamaki.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-5390-9
- OCLC:
- 648348909
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