| TITLE: |
Anime from Akira to Howl's moving castle : experiencing contemporary Japanese animation / Susan J. Napier. |
| AUTHOR: |
Napier, Susan Jolliffe. |
| PUBLISHED: |
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. |
| DESCRIPTION: |
xviii, 355 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm |
| EDITION: |
Updated ed., rev. ed.. |
| NOTES: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-342) and index. |
| NOTES: |
Why anime? -- Anime and local/global identity -- Akira and Ranma 1/2 : the monstrous adolescent -- Controlling bodies : the body in pornographic anime -- Ghosts and machines |
| NOTES: |
the technological body --Doll parts : technology and the body in Ghost in the shell --Stray : gender panics, masculine crises, and fantasy in Japanese animation -- |
| NOTES: |
The enchantment of estrangement : the Sho¯jo in the worldof Miyazaki Hayao --Now you see her, now you don't : the disappearing Sho¯jo-- Carnival and conservatism in romantic comedy --No more words |
| NOTES: |
Barefoot gen, Grave of the fireflies, and"victim's history" --Princess Mononoke : fantasy, the feminine, and the myth of "progress" --Waiting for the end of the world : apocalyptic identity -- Elegies |
| NOTES: |
When 'Spirited Away' won the Oscar for best animated film in 2002, Hayao Miyazaki proved that anime was much more than cartoons for children or a ploy to sell trading cards. |
| NOTES: |
Susan Napier demonstrates how anime can be used to explore important social and cultural issues in a sophisticated and entertaining way. |
| SUBJECT: |
Animated films--Japan. |
| SUBJECT: |
Dessins anime´s --Japon. |
| SUBJECT: |
Animated films. |
| SUBJECT: |
Japan. |
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