Cinema Anime: Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation

By: Brown, Steven T.

Book Overview

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"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230606210
• ISBN13: 9780230606210
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"