Anime explosion! : the what? why? & wow! of Japanese animation
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Anime explosion! : the what? why? & wow! of Japanese animation
Stone Bridge Press, c2014
Rev. and expanded ed
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Bibliography: p. 385-387
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Description
"An excellent reference work on the subject." Library Journal (starred review)
For fans, culture watchers, and perplexed outsiders, this expanded edition offers an engaging tour of the anime megaverse, from older artistic traditions to the works of modern creators like Hayao Miyazaki, Katsuhiro Otomo, Satoshi Kon, and CLAMP. Examined are all of anime's major themes, styles, and conventions, plus the familiar tropes of giant robots, samurai, furry beasts, high school heroines, and gay/girl/fanboy love. Concluding are fifteen essays on favorite anime, including Evangelion, Escaflowne, Sailor Moon, Patlabor, and Fullmetal Alchemist.
Patrick Drazen is an anime historian who lives in Bloomington Normal, Illinois.
Table of Contents
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION TO THE 2ND EDITION (and why there probably won't
be a 3rd edition)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PART I
1. A Page Right Out of History
2. Conventions versus Cliches
3. The Social Web and the Lone Wolf
4. Mukashi Mukashi
5. The Naked Truth
6. Rated H
7. A Very Pure Thing
8. Bushido
9. Shojodo
10. Enter the Mamagon
11. Faith Based
12. Who Ya Gonna Call?
13. The Starmaker Machinery
14. It's Not Easy Being Green
15. War and Anti-War
16. Birth, Death and Rebirth
PART 2
1. Windaria
2. Wings of Honneamise
3. Revolutionary Girl Utena
4. Giant Robo
5. Flying with Ghibli
6. The Sailor Moon Phenomenon
7. Escaflowne
8. Evangelion
9. Please Save My Earth (add Tokyo Tower sidebar)
10. The Big Pokemon Scare
11. Plastic Little
12. Masamune Shirow
13. Satoshi Kon
14. CLAMP (including Moe sidebar)
15. Fullmetal Alchemist
16. Key the Metal Idol
AFTERWORD
by "Nielsen BookData"
