TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,Steven T.
TI  - Cinema anime: critical engagements with Japanese animation 
SN  - 9781403983084 (ebook)
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York, Basingstoke
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Animated films
KW  - Japan
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Animation (Cinematography)
KW  - Performing Arts
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Cultural studies
KW  - thema
KW  - Films, cinema
KW  - Popular science
KW  - Film history, theory & criticism
KW  - Society & culture: general
KW  - Science: general issues
KW  - lcsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-237) and index; Also available in printed form ISBN 9781403970602; Electronic reproduction; Askews and Holts; Mode of access: World Wide Web
N2  - 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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