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Anime From Akira to Princess Mononoke : : Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation

Napier, Susan Jolliffe. Book - 2000 791.433 Na None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 2.3 out of 5

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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 -- The enchantment of estrangement : the shōjo in the world of Miyazaki Hayao -- 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 -- Appendix : The fifth look : Western audiences and Japanese animation.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Palgrave, 2001, c2000.
Year Published: 2000
Description: viii, 311 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0312238630 :
0312238622 (hbk.)

SUBJECTS
Animated films -- Japan.