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

Author: Susan Jolliffe Napier
Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Edition/Format: Book : English : Updated ed., [Rev. ed.]View all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Susan Jolliffe Napier
ISBN: 1403970513 9781403970510 1403970521 9781403970527
OCLC Number: 61687965
Description: xviii, 355 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents: 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.
Responsibility: Susan J. Napier.
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