Brown, Steven T., <br/><br/>
Tokyo cyberpunk :  posthumanism in Japanese visual culture / 
Steven T. Brown. 
 - First edition. 
 - viii, 256 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-246) and index. 
<br/><br/>Posthumanism after Akira. Reading rhizomatically -- Machinic desires, desiring machines, and consensual hallucinations -- Machinic desires : Hans Bellmer's dolls and the technological uncanny in Ghost in the shell 2: innocence. An overview of innocence -- "Once their strings are cut, they easily crumble" -- From puppets to automata -- The uncanny mansion -- The dolls of Hans Bellmer -- Bellmer/Oshii -- On the innocence of dolls, angels, and becoming-animal -- Desiring machines: biomechanoid eros and other. Techno-fetishes in Tetsuo: the iron man and its precursors -- The birth of sexy robots -- After Metropolis, before Tetsuo: un chien andalou -- Giger's biomechanoids, erotomechanics, and metal fetishists -- The "regular-size" monsters of Matango -- Mutating from the inside out: The fly -- "Long live the new flesh": Videodrome -- The tentacle motif from Hokusai to Tetsuo -- Envisioning the machine-city after Blade runner -- Confrontations with the salaryman model: resisting hegemonic masculinity and state-sponsored capitalism -- Coda: co-opting Tetsuo in Tetsuo II: body hammer -- Consensual hallucinations and the phantoms of electronic presence in Kairo and Avalon. Letting in ghosts, shutting out the sun -- Into the mise en abyme: spectral flows and the forbidden room -- The human stain: suicide in the shadow of Hiroshima -- Avalon and "borderline cinema" -- The society of the spectacle -- The surrealism of (virtually) everyday life -- "Welcome to class real" -- Conclusion. Software in a body: critical posthumanism and Serial experiments Lain. A shōjo named lain -- E-mail from the dead -- Doppelgängers in cyberspace -- Desiring disembodiment -- The question of resistance. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>023010360X 9780230103603 0230103596 9780230103597 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009046776 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Animated films--History and criticism--Japan<br/>Science fiction films--History and criticism--Japan<br/>Cyberpunk culture--Japan<br/>Literature and technology--Japan<br/>Comic books, strips, etc.--History and criticism.--Japan
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NC1766.J3  / BPN 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>700.952090511