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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970484203321

Titolo

Cinema Anime : Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation / / edited by Steven T. Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2006

ISBN

9786611369712

9781281369710

1281369713

9781403983084

1403983089

Edizione

[1st ed. 2006.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BrownSteven T

Disciplina

791.43/340952

Soggetti

Ethnology

Culture

Ethnology - Asia

Motion pictures - History

Animated films

Engineering

Life sciences

Regional Cultural Studies

Asian Culture

Film and TV History

Animation

Technology and Engineering

Life Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- 1 Screening Anime -- Part I Towards a Cultural Politics of Anime -- 2 "Excuse Me, Who Are You?": Performance, the Gaze, and the Female in the Works of Kon Satoshi -- 3 The Americanization of Anime and Manga: Negotiating Popular Culture -- 4 The Advent of Meguro Empress: Decoding the Avant-Pop Anime



TAMALA 2010 -- Part II Posthuman Bodies in the Animated Imaginary -- 5 Frankenstein and the Cyborg Metropolis: The Evolution of Body and City in Science Fiction Narratives -- 6 Animated Bodies and Cybernetic Selves: The Animatrix and the Question of Posthumanity -- 7 The Robots from Takkun's Head: Cyborg Adolescence in FLCL -- Part III Anime and the Limits of Cinema -- 8 The First Time as Farce: Digital Animation and the Repetition of Cinema -- 9 "Such is the Contrivance of the Cinematograph": Dur(anim)ation, Modernity, and Edo Culture in Tabaimo's Animated Installations -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection charts the terrain of contemporary Japanese animation, one of the most explosive forms of visual culture to emerge at the crossroads of transnational cultural production in the last twenty-five years. The essays offer bold and insightful engagement with animé's concerns with gender identity, anxieties about body mutation and technological monstrosity, and apocalyptic fantasies of the end of history. The contributors dismantle the distinction between 'high' and 'low' culture and offer compelling arguments for the value and importance of the study of animé and popular culture as a key link in the translation from the local to the global.