Japanese visual culture :  explorations in the world of manga and anime / 
edited by Mark W. MacWilliams ; foreword by Frederik L. Schodt. 
 - xi, 352 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/> "An East Gate book.". 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-334) and index. 
<br/><br/>Foreword : Japan's new visual culture / Frederik L. Schodt -- Introduction / Mark W. MacWilliams -- Manga in Japanese History / Kinko Ito -- Contemporary Anime in Japanese Pop Culture / Gilles Poitras -- Characters, Themes, and Narrative Patterns in the Manga of Osamu Tezuka / Susanne Phillips -- From Metropolis to Metoroporisu : The Changing Role of the Robot in Japanese and Western Cinema / Lee Makela -- Opening the Closed World of Shojo Manga / Mizuki Takahashi -- Situating the Shojo in Shojo Manga : Teenage Girls, Romance Comics, and Contemporary Japanese Culture / Deborah Shamoon -- Intellectuals, Cartoons, and Nationalism During the Russo-Japanese War / Yulia Mikhailova -- Framing Manga: On Narratives of the Second World War in Japanese Manga, 1957-1977 / Eldad Nakar -- Aum Shinrikyo and a Panic about Manga and Anime / Rich Gardner -- Medieval Genealogies of Manga and Anime Horror / Raj Pandey -- The Utopian "Power to Live": The Significance of the Miyazaki Phenomenon / Hiroshi Yamanaka -- Heart of Japaneseness: History and Nostalgia in Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away / Shiro Yoshioka -- National History as Otaku Fantasy: Satoshi Kon's Millennium Actress / Melek Ortabasi -- Considering Manga Discourse: Location, Ambiguity, Historicity / Jaqueline Berndt -- Bibliography. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0765616017 9780765616012 0765616025 9780765616029 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007025425 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Comic books, strips, etc.--History and criticism.--Japan<br/>Animated films--History and criticism--Japan
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NC1764.5.J3  / J37 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>741.5952