LEADER 03544nam 22005535 450 001 9910484662903321 005 20200827174116.0 010 $a3-030-50880-3 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-50880-7 035 $a(CKB)4100000011401293 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6320898 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-50880-7 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011401293 100 $a20200827d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTransgressing Death in Japanese Popular Culture /$fby Miguel Cesar 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Pivot,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (142 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a3-030-50879-X 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. A Genealogy of the EBT Conversation in Japan -- 3. Transgressing Boundaries: Exile and Loneliness -- 4. Rebellion and Transgression in ?Journey to Agartha? -- 5. Tragic Transgressions in Shadow of the Colossus -- 6. Conclusions. 330 $aThis book studies how transgressions of the boundaries of life and death are represented in Japanese contemporary visual media. Specifically, the book examines three case studies: the manga Fullmetal Alchemist, the animated film Journey to Agartha, and the computer game Shadow of the Colossus. By addressing how this theme is constructed by three different media, the book focuses on the narrativization of Japanese ontological anxieties. The book argues that, although these texts deal with matters of afterlife through fantasy worlds, the content of their stories, the archetypes of their characters, and their existential journeys echo contextually-situated conversations. Matters of gender, societal structure and, most of all, the tensions between individuality and sociocentrism not only permeate but structure the interrogation of our relation to the afterlife. This book stands to contribute significantly to media studies, literary studies, comics studies, and Japanese studies. Miguel Cesar completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh. He obtained his degree in History at the University Complutense of Madrid in 2013, an MSc in American Anthropology at the same university, and an MSc in Japanese Society and Culture at the University of Edinburgh. He is currently an independent researcher studying the role of contemporary Japanese visual media in the shaping of current discourses on individualism and community. 606 $aEthnology?Asia 606 $aPopular Culture 606 $aComic books, strips, etc 606 $aAsian Culture$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411040 606 $aPopular Culture $3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411170 606 $aComics Studies$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411250 615 0$aEthnology?Asia. 615 0$aPopular Culture. 615 0$aComic books, strips, etc. 615 14$aAsian Culture. 615 24$aPopular Culture . 615 24$aComics Studies. 676 $a700.45480952 676 $a301 700 $aCesar$b Miguel$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01224891 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484662903321 996 $aTransgressing Death in Japanese Popular Culture$92844093 997 $aUNINA