Cinema Anime

by Brown, Steven T.

• ISBN13: 9781403970602
• ISBN10: 1403970602
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-04-02
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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 anime's concerns with gender identity, anxieties about body mutation and technological monstrosity, and apocalyptic fantasies. The contributors dismantle the distinction between "high" and "low" culture and offer compelling arguments for the value and importance of the study of anime and popular culture as a key link in the translation from the local to the global.

Author Biography

Steven Brown is Associate Professor of Japanese Literature and Popular Culture at the University of Oregon.

Table of Contents

Screening Anime	1	(22)
Steven T. Brown
Part I Towards a Cultural Politics of Anime
``Excuse Me, Who Are You?'': Performance, the Gaze, and the Female in the Works of Kon Satoshi	23	(20)
Susan Napier
The Americanization of Anime and Manga: Negotiating Popular Culture	43	(22)
Antonia Levi
The Advent of Meguro Empress: Decoding the Avant-Pop Anime TAMALA 2010	65	(16)
Tatsumi Takayuki
Part II Posthuman Bodies in the Animated Imaginary
Frankenstein and the Cyborg Metropolis: The Evolution of Body and City in Science Fiction Narratives	81	(32)
Sharalyn Orbaugh
Animated Bodies and Cybernetic Selves: The Animatrix and the Question of Posthumanity	113	(26)
Carl Silvio
The Robots from Takkun's Head: Cyborg Adolescence in FLCL	139	(22)
Brian Ruh
Part III Anime and the Limits of Cinema
The First Time as Farce: Digital Animation and the Repetition of Cinema	161	(28)
Thomas Lamarre
``Such is the Contrivance of the Cinematograph'': Dur(anim)ation, Modernity, and Edo Culture in Tabaimo's Animated Installations	189	(38)
Livia Monnet
Bibliography	227	(12)
Notes on Contributors	239	(2)
Index	241