CINEMA ANIME: CRITICAL ENGAGEMENTS WITH JAPANESE ANIMATION; ED. BY STEVEN T. BROWN

Presents a collection, which 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. This book offers various arguments for the importance of the study of anime. Cover; Contents; 1 Screening Anime; Part I Towards a Cultural Politics of Anime; 2 "Excuse Me, Who Are You?": Performance, the Gaze, and the Female in the Works of Kon Satoshi; 3 The Americanization of Anime and Manga: Negotiating Popular Culture; 4 The Advent of Meguro Empress: Decoding the Avant-Pop Anime Tamala 2010; Part Ii Posthuman Bodies in the Animated Imaginary; 5 Frankenstein and the Cyborg Metropolis: The Evolution of Body and City in Science Fiction Narratives; 6 Animated Bodies and Cybernetic Selves: The Animatrix and the Question of Posthumanity. 7 The Robots from Takkun's Head: Cyborg Adolescence in Flclpart Iii Anime and the Limits of Cinema; 8 The First Time as Farce: Digital Animation and the Repetition of Cinema; 9 "Such is the Contrivance of the Cinematograph": Dur(anim)ation, Modernity, and Edo Culture in Tabaimo's Animated Installations; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 1 Screening Anime......Page 10 Part I Towards a Cultural Politics of Anime......Page 30 2 “Excuse Me, Who Are You?”: Performance, the Gaze, and the Female in the Works of Kon Satoshi......Page 32 3 The Americanization of Anime and Manga: Negotiating Popular Culture......Page 52 4 The Advent of Meguro Empress: Decoding the Avant-Pop Anime TAMALA 2010......Page 74 Part II Posthuman Bodies in the Animated Imaginary......Page 88 5 Frankenstein and the Cyborg Metropolis: The Evolution of Body and City in Science Fiction Narratives......Page 90 6 Animated Bodies and Cybernetic Selves: The Animatrix and the Question of Posthumanity......Page 122 7 The Robots from Takkun’s Head: Cyborg Adolescence in FLCL......Page 148 Part III Anime and the Limits of Cinema......Page 168 8 The First Time as Farce: Digital Animation and the Repetition of Cinema......Page 170 9 “Such is the Contrivance of the Cinematograph”: Dur(anim)ation, Modernity, and Edo Culture in Tabaimo’s Animated Installations......Page 198 Bibliography......Page 236 Notes on Contributors......Page 248 C......Page 250 E......Page 251 I......Page 252 M......Page 253 N......Page 254 S......Page 255 U......Page 256 Z......Page 257 Cover 1 Contents 8 1 Screening Anime 10 Part I Towards a Cultural Politics of Anime 30 2 “Excuse Me, Who Are You?”: Performance, the Gaze, and the Female in the Works of Kon Satoshi 32 3 The Americanization of Anime and Manga: Negotiating Popular Culture 52 4 The Advent of Meguro Empress: Decoding the Avant-Pop Anime TAMALA 2010 74 Part II Posthuman Bodies in the Animated Imaginary 88 5 Frankenstein and the Cyborg Metropolis: The Evolution of Body and City in Science Fiction Narratives 90 6 Animated Bodies and Cybernetic Selves: The Animatrix and the Question of Posthumanity 122 7 The Robots from Takkun’s Head: Cyborg Adolescence in FLCL 148 Part III Anime and the Limits of Cinema 168 8 The First Time as Farce: Digital Animation and the Repetition of Cinema 170 9 “Such is the Contrivance of the Cinematograph”: Dur(anim)ation, Modernity, and Edo Culture in Tabaimo’s Animated Installations 198 Bibliography 236 Notes on Contributors 248 Index 250 A 250 B 250 C 250 D 251 E 251 F 252 G 252 H 252 I 252 J 253 K 253 L 253 M 253 N 254 O 255 P 255 R 255 S 255 T 256 U 256 V 257 W 257 X 257 Y 257 Z 257 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 anim(r)'s concerns with gender identity, anxieties about body mutation and technological monstrosity, and apocalyptic fantasies of the end of history. The contributors dismantle the distinction between 'high' and 'low' culture and offer compelling arguments for the value and importance of the study of anim(r) and popular culture as a key link in the translation from the local to the global 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 animé's concerns with gender identity, anxieties about body mutation and technological monstrosity, and apocalyptic fantasies of the end of history. The contributors dismantle the distinction between 'high' and 'low' culture and offer compelling arguments for the value and importance of the study of animé and popular culture as a key link in the translation from the local to the global

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.