Cinema Anime [1st ed.] 9781403970602, 1403970602

This collection charts the terrain of contemporary Japanese animation, one of the most explosive forms of visual culture

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Table of contents :
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

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