Tezuka's manga life / / Frenchy Lunning, editor

• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, Minnesota : , : University Of Minnesota Press, , 2013; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Disciplina: 741.595105
• Soggetto topico: Caricatures and cartoons - History - Japan - 20th century; Comic books, strips, etc - Japan - History and criticism
• Persona (resp. second.): LunningFrenchy
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Introduction; Nonhuman Life; "Becoming-Insect Woman": Tezuka's Feminist Species; Diary of an Insect Shojo's Vagabond Life; Tezuka Osamu's Circle of Life: Vitalism, Evolution, and Buddhism; Atom Came from Bugs: The Precocious Didacticism of Tezuka Osamu's Essays in Insect Idleness; On the Fabulation of a Form of Life in the Drawn Line and Systems of Thought; The Metamorphic and Microscopic in Tezuka Osamu's Graphic Novels; Media Life; Where Is Tezuka? A Theory of Manga Expression; Phoenix 2772: A 1980 Turning Point for Tezuka and Anime; Copying Atomu; Tokiwasou Story ; A Life in MangaToward a Theory of "Artist Manga": Manga Self-Consciousness and the Transforming Figure of the Artist; Manga Shonen: Kato Ken'ichi and the Manga Boys; Implicating Readers: Tezuka's Early Seinen Manga; Tezuka's Anime Revolution in Context; Designing a World; Unico; Everyday Life; An Unholy Alliance of Eisenstein and Disney: The Fascist Origins of Otaku Culture; Osamu Moet Moso: Imagining Lines of Eroticism in Akihabara; Tezuka, Shojo Manga, and Hagio Moto; Out of Death, an Atomic Consecration to Life: Astro Boy and Hiroshima's Long Shadow; Wolf Head in Phoenix; Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: Known as the "Walt Disney of Japan" it is no surprise that Tezuka Osamu is still the best-known manga creator to Western fans. Current scholarship has uncovered the profound complexity and ambiguity not only of his work but of the man, the artist, and his life-dismantling his position as the god of manga.Contributors to this volume of Mechademia-a series devoted to creative and critical work on anime, manga, and the fan arts-analyze Tezuka and his complicated approaches toward life and nonlife on earth, as well as his effect on the lives of other manga artists. Using essays and reprints of Jap
• Titolo autorizzato: Tezuka's manga life
• ISBN: 1-4529-4020-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811083603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Mechademia ; ; Volume 8.