Cinema Anime: Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation

This collection charts the terrain of contemporary Japanese animation, one of the most explosive forms of visual culture to emerge at the crossroads of transnational cultural production in the last twenty-five years. The essays offer bold and insightful engagement with animé's concerns with gender identity, anxieties about body mutation and technological monstrosity, and apocalyptic fantasies of the end of history. The contributors dismantle the distinction between 'high' and 'low' culture and offer compelling arguments for the value and importance of the study of animé and popular culture as a key link in the translation from the local to the global.

Author: Steven T. Brown
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 04/21/2006
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.32h x 6.04w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9781403970602

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2006 pg. 489

About the Author
STEVEN T. BROWN is Associate Professor of Japanese Literature and Popular Culture at the University of Oregon, USA.

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