Bibliograph

Cinema anime, critical engagements with Japanese animation, edited by Steven T. Brown

Type

Label

Cinema anime, critical engagements with Japanese animation, edited by Steven T. Brown

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-237) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Cinema anime

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

edited by Steven T. Brown

Sub title

critical engagements with Japanese animation

Summary

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., 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 anim'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 anim and popular culture as a key link in the translation from the local to the global

Target audience

specialized

Classification