| Cinema Anime: Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation 2006 Edition Contributor(s): Brown, Steven T. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0230606210 ISBN-13: 9780230606210 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2008 Annotation: 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 anime's concerns with gender identity, anxieties about body mutation and technological monstrosity, and apocalyptic fantasies. The contributors dismantle the distinction between "high" and "low" culture and offer compelling arguments for the value and importance of the study of anime and popular culture as a key link in the translation from the local to the global. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Science | Life Sciences - General - Performing Arts | Television - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 791.430 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.70 lbs) 248 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Japanese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |