Anime from Akira to Howl's moving castle : experiencing contemporary Japanese animation /
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. Susan Napier demonstrates how anime can be used to explore important social and cultural issues in a sophisticated a...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2005.
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| Edition: | Updated ed., [Rev. ed.]. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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 : the technological body
- Doll parts : technology and the body in Ghost in the shell
- Stray : gender panics, masculine crises, and fantasy in Japanese animation
- The enchantment of estrangement : the Shōjo in the world of Miyazaki Hayao
- Now you see her, now you don't : the disappearing Shōjo
- Carnival and conservatism in romantic comedy
- No more words : 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
- Conclusion : a fragmented mirror.
