Cinema Anime: Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation

by Steven T. Brown (Editor)

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.

Genres: Anime, Nonfiction, Japan, History, American, Film

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Tyler · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have nothing better to share than what everyone else has already stated, but I do want to say that this book's asking price is around $45 Canadian, which is absolutely fucking insanity. I can only assume that this is a school text book, which gives the publishers the right to ask for such a ridiculous price. Thank god for public libraries, because this book of essays is actually on point.

[April · Rating 3 out of 5]

My thoughts:

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[Rufus · Rating 5 out of 5]

read this in CAL library in UP Diliman. the essay on Lain is awesome. must-read for philosophical anime lovers.

[Petra · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was good in ways I didn't expect and I got useful information out of it, but otherwise it wasn't very comprehensive and the essays didn't relate to each other that much.

[Layla Todd · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dense writing and lack of chapter headings and subheadings make this book difficult to read despite its useful overview of the anime genre.

[ichibata · Rating 2 out of 5]

a collection of motley essays on anime and its fringes. it's nice to include essays that deal in its entirety with Tamala 2010 or FLCL, or lose itself in interpretations of a specific film/series, but this way it doesn't give an overview of cinema anime, because the whole collection is too loosely/not really connected to one another.

[Allegra · Rating 3 out of 5]

Useful in unexpected ways; useless in others.