Anime from Akira to Howl's moving castle : experiencing contemporary Japanese animation /

Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Napier, Susan Jolliffe
Formato: Livro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado em: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Edição:Updated ed.
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Sumário:
  • 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.