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"The essays brought together in Mechademia 9 lead us to understand the extent to which 'Japan' might be seen as an idea generated by anime, manga, and other texts rather than the other way around. What is it that manga and anime produce that no other medium can precisely duplicate? Is...

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Other Authors: Lunning, Frenchy (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781452943664
1452943664
9781452943657
1452943656
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Table of Contents:
  • Dedication to Dr. John A. Lent
  • Introduction / Christopher Bolton
  • Subjects of desire. Hagio Moto's nuclear manga and promise of eco-feminist desire / Margherita Long
  • Where is my place in the world? Early Shōjo manga portrayals of lesbianism / Fujimoto Yukari, translated by Lucy Fraser
  • Between men, androids, and robots: Assaying mechanical man in Meiji literature and visual culture / Seth Jacobowitz
  • Bodies in motion. Carbon as creation: On Tsuji Naoyuki's charcoal anime / Paul Roquet
  • Powers of (dis)ability: Toward a bodily origin in Mushishi / Steven R. Anderson
  • South Korea and the sub-empire of anime: Kinesthetics of subcontracted animation production /Joon Yang Kim
  • Boundaries. Japanese cartoon films / Imamura Taihei, translated by Thomas Lamarre
  • From street corner to living room: Domestication of TV culture and national time/narrative / Shun'ya Yoshimi, translated by Jodie Beck
  • Hyperbolic nationalism: South Korea's shadow animation industry / Kukhee Choo
  • Conceptualizing anime and the database fantasyscape / Brian Ruh
  • Rescripting history. Rebranding Himiko, the shaman queen of ancient history / Laura Miller
  • Tezuka's Buddha at the Tokyo National Museum: An interview with Matsumoto Nobuyuki / Christopher Bolton
  • Genesis at the shrine: The votive art of an anime pilgrimage / Dale K. Andrews
  • Repetition, Remediation, adaptation. The girl at the center of the world: Gender, genre, and remediation in Bishōjo Media Works / Forrest Greenwood
  • The localization of Kiki's Delivery Service / Alexandra Roedder
  • Franchising and failure: Disclosure of failure within the Japanese-American Speed Racer franchise / Rayna Denison
  • Evangelion as second impact: Forever changing that which never was / Andreu Ballús and Alba G. Torrents
  • From ground zero to degree zero: Akira from origin to oblivion / Christopher Bolton.