Japanese visual culture: explorations in the world of manga and anime

Abstract

Foreword, Frederik L. Schodt Introduction, Mark W. MacWilliams 1. Manga in Japanese History, Kinko Ito 2. Contemporary Anime in Japanese Pop Culture, Gilles Poitras 3. Characters, Themes, and Narrative Patterns in the Manga of Osamu Tezuka, Susanne Phillips 4. From Metropolis to Metoroporisu: The Changing Role of the Robot in Japanese and Western Cinema, Lee Makela 5. Opening the Closed World of Shojo Manga, Mizuki Takahashi 6. Situating the Shojo in Shojo Manga: Teenage Girls, Romance Comics, and Contemporary Japanese Culture, Deborah Shamoon 7. Intellectuals, Cartoons, and Nationalism During the Russo-Japanese War, Yulia Mikhailova 8. Framing Manga: On Narratives of the Second World War in Japanese Manga, 1957-1977, Eldad Nakar 9. Aum Shinrikyo and a Panic about Manga and Anime, Rich Gardner 10. Medieval Genealogies of Manga Horror, Raj Pandey 11. The Utopian Power to Live: What the Miyazaki Phenomenon Signifies, Hiroshi Yamanaka 12. Heart of Japaneseness: History and Nostalgia in Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away, Shiro Yoshioka 13. National History as Otaku Fantasy: Satoshi Kon's Millennium Actress, Melek Ortabasi 14. Considering Manga Discourse: Location, Ambiguity, Historicity, Jaqueline Berndt Bibliography About the Contributors Index.