Cinema anime :  critical engagements with Japanese animation / 
edited by Steven T. Brown. 
 - New York ;  Basingstoke :  Palgrave Macmillan,  2006. 
 - viii, 248 p. :  ill. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-237) and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
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<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Askews and Holts. <br/>Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781403983084 (ebook) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Animated films--History and criticism.--Japan<br/>Animation (Cinematography)--Japan.<br/>Performing Arts.<br/>Cultural studies<br/>Films, cinema<br/>Animated films<br/>Popular science<br/>Film history, theory & criticism<br/>Society & culture: general<br/>Science: general issues
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