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Mechademia 2 : Networks of Desire.
Title:
Mechademia 2 : Networks of Desire.
Author:
Lunning, Frenchy.
ISBN:
9780816654055
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (315 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction: Art Mecho -- Shojo -- Revolutionary Romance: The Rose of Versailles and the Transformation of Shojo Manga -- Shojo Manga! Girls' Comics! A Mirror of Girls' Dreams -- Ranma ½ Fan Fiction Writers: New Narrative Themes or the Same Old Story? -- Doll Beauties and Cosplay -- A Japanese Electra and Her Queer Progeny -- Powers of Time -- Thieves of Baghdad: Transnational Networks of Cinema and Anime in the 1920s -- When Pacifist Japan Fights: Historicizing Desires in Anime -- The Quick and the Undead: Visual and Political Dynamics in Blood: The Last Vampire -- Bridges of the Unknown: Visual Desires and Small Apocalypses -- Animalization -- Malice@Doll: Konaka, Specularization, and the Virtual Feminine -- The Animalization of Otaku Culture -- Sex and the Single Pig: Desire and Flight in Porco Rosso -- The Education of Desire: Futari etchi and the Globalization of Sexual Tolerance -- My Father, He Killed Me -- My Mother, She Ate Me: Self, Desire, Engendering, and the Mother in Neon Genesis Evangelion -- Horizons -- Fly Away Old Home: Memory and Salvation in Haibane-Renmei -- In the World That Is Infinitely Inclusive: Four Theses on Voices of a Distant Star and The Wings of Honneamise -- Between the Child and the Mecha -- Review and Commentary -- Godzilla's Children: Murakami Takes Manhattan -- Anime: Comparing Macro and Micro Analyses -- Crazy Rabbit Man: Why I Rewrite Manga -- Brain-Diving Batou -- Lurkers at the Threshold: Saya and the Nature of Evil -- Torendo -- UAAAAA! Trashkultur! An Interview with MAK's Johannes Wieninger -- Contributors -- Call for Papers.
Abstract:
Networks of DesireÑthe second volume in the Mechademia series, an annual forum devoted to critical and creative work on Japanese anime, manga, and the fan cultures that have coalesced around themÑexplores the varieties of desire that structure and influence much of contemporary anime and manga in manifestations that range from the explicitly sexual to more sublimated text and imagery. Collecting original essays by scholars, artists, and fans, Networks of Desire considers key issues at play in a Japanese society increasingly uncertain of its place in a globalized world: from idealized representations of same-sex desire in such sh™jo manga (girlsÕ comics) as The Rose of Versailles, to fan fiction inspired by the gender-switching manga Ranma , to desire in otaku communities. Deftly weaving together desire and discourse, Mechademia 2 illuminates the techno-carnal fantasies, animalistic consumption, political nostalgia, and existential hunger underlying the most popular and influential expressions of Japanese popular culture today. Contributors: Brent Allison, Meredith Suzanne Hahn Aquila, Hiroki Azuma, William L. Benzon, Christopher Bolton, Martha Cornog, Patrick Drazen, Marc Hairston, Mari Kotani, Shu Kuge, Margherita Long, Daisuke Miyao, Hiromi Mizuno, Mariana Ortega, Timothy Perper, Eron Rauch, Trina Robbins, Brian Ruh, Deborah Shamoon, Masami Toku, Keith Vincent.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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