Beautiful fighting girl [[electronic resource] /] / Saitō Tamaki ; translated by J. Keith Vincent and Dawn Lawson ; commentary by Hiroki Azuma
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| Autore: |
Saitō Tamaki <1961->
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| Titolo: |
Beautiful fighting girl [[electronic resource] /] / Saitō Tamaki ; translated by J. Keith Vincent and Dawn Lawson ; commentary by Hiroki Azuma
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis [Minn.], : University of Minnesota Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (242 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 741.5/3524220952 |
| Soggetto topico: | Comic books, strips, etc - Japan - History and criticism |
| Women in popular culture - Japan | |
| Girls in popular culture - Japan | |
| Girls in literature - Japan | |
| Girls in art - Japan | |
| Popular culture - Japanese influences | |
| Animated films - Japan - History and criticism | |
| Altri autori: |
VincentKeith <1968->
LawsonDawn
AzumaHiroki <1971->
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; A Note on the Translation; Translator's Introduction: Making It Real: Fiction, Desire, and the Queerness of the Beautiful Fighting Girl; BEAUTIFUL FIGHTING GIRL; Afterword to the First Edition (2000); Afterword to the Paperback Edition (2006); Commentary: The Elder Sister of Otaku: Japan's Database Animals; Notes; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | From Cutie Honey and Sailor Moon to Nausica? of the Valley of the Wind, the worlds of Japanese anime and manga teem with prepubescent girls toting deadly weapons. Sometimes overtly sexual, always intensely cute, the beautiful fighting girl has been both hailed as a feminist icon and condemned as a symptom of the objectification of young women in Japanese society. In Beautiful Fighting Girl, Sait? Tamaki offers a far more sophisticated and convincing interpretation of this alluring and capable figure. For Sait?, the beautiful fighting girl is a complex sexual fantasy that paradoxically lends re |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Beautiful fighting girl |
| ISBN: | 1-4529-4610-8 |
| 0-8166-7657-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910826959403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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