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Mangatopia : essays on manga and anime in the modern world /

Publisher description: While Japanese manga and anime began to make inroads in Western culture about three decades ago, these art forms remained a subcultural phenomenon until the mid-1990s, when the increased distribution of translated manga and anime brought them into the mainstream. In 2007, U.S....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Perper, Timothy, 1939-, Cornog, Martha
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Libraries Unlimited, ©2011.
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  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction to a Semiotic Revolution: It May Not Be Kansas Anymore, but It Is the Kansai / Timothy Perper and Martha Cornog
  • pt. 1: Art in Contexts
  • Chikae Ide, The Queen of Japanese Ladies' Comics: Her Life and Work / Kinko Ito
  • Films on Paper: Cinematic Narrative in Gekiga / Deborah Shamoon
  • Dr. Tezuka's Ontology Laboratory and the Discovery of Japan / William L. Benzon
  • Heirs and Graces
  • Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit in the Realm of Japanese Fantasy / Paul Jackson
  • pt. 2: Fanships and Art
  • Cosplay, Drag, and the Performance of Abjection / Frenchy Lunning
  • Love through a Different Lens: Japanese Homoerotic Manga through the Eyes of American Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Other Sexualities Readers / Robin E. Brenner and Snow Wildsmith
  • Girls Doing Boys Doing Boys: Boys' Love, Masculinity, and Sexual Identities / Mark McHarry
  • Reading Right to Left: The Surprisingly Broad Appeal of Manga and Anime; or, "Wait a Minute" / Patrick Drazen
  • Part 3: Politics
  • Manga from Right to Left / Matthew Penney
  • All Life is Genocide: The Philosophical Pessimism of Osamu Tezuka / Ada Palmer
  • Believe in Comics: Forms of Expression in Barefoot Gen / Thomas LaMarre
  • Cultural Politics of J-Culture and "Soft Power": Tentative Remarks from a European Perspective / Marco Pellitteri
  • Afterword: It Isn't Kansai Anymore Either / Timothy Perper and Martha Cornog.