Anime : from Akira to howl's moving castle : experiencing contemporary Japanese animation / Susan J. Napier
Author(s): Napier, Susan J.
Library Item Details
- Main Title
- Anime : from Akira to howl's moving castle : experiencing contemporary Japanese animation
- Author(s)
- Napier, Susan J.
- Publisher
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
- Collation
- xviii, 355 pages
24 cm - ISBN
- 9781403970527
- Dewey Class
- 791.952
- Contents
- Why anime? -- Anime and local/global identity -- Akira and Ranma 1/2 : the monstrous adolescent -- Controlling bodies : the body in pornographic anime -- Ghosts and machines : the technological body -- Doll parts : technology and the body in Ghost in the shell -- Stray : gender panics, masculine crises, and fantasy in Japanese animation -- The enchantment of estrangement : the Shōjo in the world of Miyazaki Hayao -- Now you see her, now you don't : the disappearing Shōjo -- Carnival and conservatism in romantic comedy -- No more words : Barefoot gen, Grave of the fireflies, and "victim's history" -- Princess Mononoke : fantasy, the feminine, and the myth of "progress" -- Waiting for the end of the world : apocalyptic identity -- Elegies -- Conclusion : a fragmented mirror.
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Animated films -- Japan.
- BRN
- 3394
Notes
- Previous edition: published as Animé from Akira to Princess Monoke. New York; Great Britain: Palgrave, 2001.
Availability
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Rotunda Library & Archive
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791.952 NAP
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