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  • Kaleidoscope Japan

    A nation through the lens of literature

    de Richard Nathan ...
    Series series Richard Nathan
    Kaleidoscope Japan takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride through the fascinating, diverse and colourful world of Japanese letters. Whether you are familiar with the influences, movements, and characters behind some of the greatest-and earliest-works in world literature or are taking your first tentative steps into a realm of genius detectives, curmudgeonly drunks, and lecherous princes, there ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

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  • Turning Point: 1997-2008

    1997-2008

    de Hayao Miyazaki ...
    Series series Turning Point: 1997-2008
    In the mid-1990s, filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki moved from success to success as his work found an audience outside of Japan. His animated films of the era, including Princess Mononoke, Howl’s Moving Castle, and Ponyo,were internationally lauded, and Miyazaki won an Academy Award® in 2003 for his popular and critical hit Spirited Away.Follow Miyazaki as his vision matures, as cinema-lovers worldwide ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • The Anime Art of Hayao Miyazaki

    de Dani Cavallaro ...
    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 ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The Passenger: Japan

    de The Passenger, Richard Lloyd Parry, Yoshimoto Banana, Ian Buruma ...
    Series series The Passenger
    Explore Japanese society in the lively series that collects the best new writing, photography, art, and reportage from around the world.Visitors from the West look with amazement, and sometimes concern, at Japan's social structures and unique, complex culture industry; the gigantic scale of its tech corporations and the resilience of its traditions; the extraordinary diversity of the subcultures ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Studio Ghibli

    The Films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata

    de Colin Odell, Michelle Le Blanc ...
    The animations of Japan's Studio Ghibli are amongst the highest regarded in the movie industry. Their delightful films rank alongside the most popular non-English language films ever made, with each new eagerly-anticipated release a guaranteed box-office smash. Yet this highly profitable studio has remained fiercely independent, producing a stream of imaginative and individual animations. The ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Anime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle

    Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation

    de Susan J. Napier ...
    This new edition of the groundbreaking popular book from Susan J Napier , Anime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle, is a must-have for both seasoned and new fans of anime.Japanese animation is more popular than ever following the 2002 Academy Award given to Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away. It confirmed that anime is more than just children's cartoons, often portraying important social and cultural ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD

  • Manga and the Representation of Japanese History

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • The Bells of Old Tokyo

    Meditations on Time and a City

    de Anna Sherman ...
    An elegant and absorbing tour of Tokyo, its past, and its people from "a profoundly evocative writer" ( The Wall Street Journal).Longlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje PrizeFrom 1632 until 1854, Japan's rulers restricted contact with foreign countries, a near isolation that fostered a remarkable and unique culture that endures to this day. In hypnotic prose and sensual detail, ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Kansai Cool

    A Journey into the Cultural Heartland of Japan

    de Christal Whelan ...
    In Kansai Cool anthropologist, writer and filmmaker Christal Whelan offers profound insights in the only collection of essays to focus on Kansai, Japan's ancient heartland.Kansai—the region in Western Japan that boasts the ancient capitals of Kyoto and Nara, the bustling commercial city of Osaka and the cosmopolitan port city of Kobe—has a character all its own, right down to its dialect, ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Grave of the Fireflies

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Tokyo in Transit

    Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road

    de Alisa Freedman ...
    Increased use of mass transportation in the early twentieth century enabled men and women of different social classes to interact in ways they had not before. Using a cultural studies approach that combines historical research and literary analysis, author Alisa Freedman investigates fictional, journalistic, and popular culture depictions of how mass transportation changed prewar Tokyo's social ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD