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