Full Metal Apache : Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America /
Compares modern science fiction and the avant garde pop scene in America and Japan.
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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham [NC] :
Duke University Press,
2006.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / Larry McCaffery
- Introduction: Anatomies of Dependence
- Part One Theory
- Chapter 1. Mikadophilia, or The Fate of Cyborgian Identity in the Postmillenarian Milieu
- Chapter 2. Comparative Metafiction: Somewhere between Ideology and Rhetoric
- Part Two History
- Chapter 3. Virus as Metaphor: A Postorientalist Reading of the Future War Novels of the 1890s
- Chapter 4. Deep North Gothic: A Postoccidentalist Reading of Hearne, Yanagita, and Akutagawa
- Chapter 5. Which Way to Coincidence?: A Queer Reading of J.G. Ballard's Crash
- Chapter 6. A Manifesto for Gynoids: A Cyborg Feminist Reading of Richard Calder
- Part Three Aesthetics
- Chapter 7. Semiotic Ghost Stories: The Japanese Reflection of Mirrorshades
- Chapter 8. Junk Art City, or How Gibson Meets Thomasson in Virtual Light
- Chapter 9. Pax Exotica: A new exoticist perspective on Audrey, Anna-chan, and Idoru
- Part Four Performance
- Chapter 10. Magic Realist Tokyo: Poe's "The Man That Was Used Up" as a Subtext for Bartók-Terayama's Magical Musical The Miraculous Mandarin
- Part Five Representation
- Chapter 11. Full Metal Apache: Shinya Tsukamoto's Tetsuo Diptych, or The Impact of American Narratives on the Japanese Representation of Cyborgian Identity
- Conclusion: Waiting for Godzilla: Toward a globalist theme park
- Appendix 1: Toward the Frontiers of Fiction: From Metafiction and Cyberpunk through Avant-Pop, The Correspondence between Takayuki Tatsumi and Larry McCaffery
- Appendix 2: A Dialogue with the Nanofash Pygmalion: An Interview with Richard Calder.