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  • The Many Worlds of Takahata Isao

    by Lindsay Coleman, Rayna Denison, David Desser, Dr. Darren-Jon Ashmore, Jonathan Clements, Professor Thomas Lamarre, Dr. Helen McCarthy, Dr. Laura Montero-Plata0, Susan Napier1, Shiro Yoshioka2 ...
    Takahata Isao (1935–2018), often referred to as the “Second Pillar” of the renowned Studio Ghibli, is one of the most esteemed animation directors in the history of the form. He is also the first, and thus far the only, anime director to have a solo exhibition at the prestigious National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo and was widely recognized for his advocacy of environmental and pacifist causes. ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Dialectics of the Goddess in Japanese Audiovisual Culture

    by Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano, Linda C. Ehrlich, Irene González-López, Dolores P. Martinez, José Montaño, Laura Montero, Víctor Navarro-Remesal, Sybil A. Thornton ...
    Through provocative essays by specialists in different aspects of Japanese culture, this book provides an historical and analytical survey of the presence of Goddesses in Japanese audiovisual culture from its origins to the present day. It shows how these feminine myths are represented in Japan; not only as beneficial or creative deities, but also the archetypal strong or dominant woman that ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

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    The thought-provoking, aesthetically pleasing animated films of Hayao Miyazaki attract audiences well beyond the director's native Japan. Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away were critically acclaimed upon U.S. release, and the earlier My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service have found popularity with Americans on DVD. This critical study of Miyazaki's work begins with an analysis of the ... Read more

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  • Studio Ghibli

    The Films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata

    by Colin Odell, Michelle Le Blanc ...
    ** New edition of this popular guide, updated and expanded to include Studio Ghibli's latest box office smash, The Boy and the Heron **The animations of Japan's Studio Ghibli are among the most respected in the movie industry. Their films rank alongside the most popular non-English language films ever made, with each new release a guaranteed box office hit. Yet this highly profitable studio has ... Read more

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  • A Brief History of Manga

    by Helen McCarthy ...
    Manga is more than a genre in the comics field: it is a vital creative medium in its own right, with hundreds of millions of readers worldwide, a host of graphic styles, and a rich history now spanning seven decades.Now for the first time, that history is told by an award-winning expert in the field. Covering topics from Akira to Mazinger Z, this book is fully illustrated throughout, and photos of ... Read more

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  • Otaku

    Japan's Database Animals

    by Hiroki Azuma ...
    Translated by Jonathan E. Abel, Shion Kono ...
    In Japan, obsessive adult fans and collectors of manga and anime are known as otaku. When the underground otaku subculture first emerged in the 1970s, participants were looked down on within mainstream Japanese society as strange, antisocial loners. Today otaku have had a huge impact on popular culture not only in Japan but also throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States.Hiroki Azuma’s Otaku ... Read more

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  • Anime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle

    Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation

    by Susan J. Napier ...
    "Draws a complete picture of Japanese animation as a legitimate art form, and uses anime as a key to the culture that creates it." — Entertainment WeeklyThis revised and updated edition of Anime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle covers Hayao Miyazaki's Academy Award-winner Spirited Away, Ghost in the Shell, Grave of the Fireflies, and many more groundbreaking films—in addition to the classics in ... Read more

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  • Manga and the Representation of Japanese History

    Edited by Roman Rosenbaum ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    This edited collection explores how graphic art and in particular Japanese manga represent Japanese history.The articles explore the representation of history in manga from disciplines that include such diverse fields as literary studies, politics, history, cultural studies, linguistics, narratology, and semiotics. Despite this diversity of approaches all academics from these respective fields of ... Read more

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  • The Soul of Anime

    Collaborative Creativity and Japan's Media Success Story

    by Ian Condry ...
    Series series Experimental futures
    In The Soul of Anime, Ian Condry explores the emergence of anime, Japanese animated film and television, as a global cultural phenomenon. Drawing on ethnographic research, including interviews with artists at some of Tokyo's leading animation studios—such as Madhouse, Gonzo, Aniplex, and Studio Ghibli—Condry discusses how anime's fictional characters and worlds become platforms for collaborative ... Read more

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  • God of Comics

    Osamu Tezuka and the Creation of Post-World War II Manga

    by Natsu Onoda Power ...
    Series series Great Comics Artists Series
    Cartoonist Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989) is the single most important figure in Japanese post-World War II comics. During his four-decade career, Tezuka published more than 150,000 pages of comics, produced animation films, wrote essays and short fiction, and earned a Ph.D. in medicine. Along with creating the character Astro Boy (Mighty Atom in Japan), he is best known for establishing story comics as ... Read more

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  • The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami

    by Matthew Carl Strecher ...
    In an “other world” composed of language—it could be a fathomless Martian well, a labyrinthine hotel or forest—a narrative unfolds, and with it the experiences, memories, and dreams that constitute reality for Haruki Murakami’s characters and readers alike. Memories and dreams in turn conjure their magical counterparts—people without names or pasts, fantastic animals, half-animals, and talking ... Read more

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  • Grave of the Fireflies

    by Alex Dudok de Wit ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    On its release in 1988, Grave of the Fireflies riveted audiences with its uncompromising drama. Directed by Isao Takahata at Studio Ghibli and based on an autobiographical story by Akiyuki Nosaka, the story of two Japanese children struggling to survive in the dying days of the Second World War unfolds with a gritty realism unprecedented in animation. Grave of the Fireflies has since been hailed ... Read more

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