Mechademia 5.
Title:
Mechademia 5.
Author:
Lunning, Frenchy.
ISBN:
9780816675197
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (401 pages)
Series:
Mechademia ; v.v. 5
Mechademia
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction -- Sites of Transposition -- The Art of Cute Little Things: Nara Yoshitomo's Parapolitics -- Transforming U.S. Anime in the 1980s: Localization and Longevity -- Speciesism, Part II: Tezuka Osamu and the Multispecies Ideal -- Undoing Inter-national Fandom in the Age of Brand Nationalism -- Patterns of Consumption -- World and Variation: The Reproduction and Consumption of Narrative -- Frenchness and Transformation in Japanese Subculture, 1972-2004 -- Monstrous Media and Delusional Consumption in Kon Satoshi's Paranoia Agent -- Lucid Dreams, False Awakenings: Figures of the Fan in Kon Satoshi -- A Cosplay Photography Sampler -- Modes of Circulation -- Dark Energy: What Fansubs Reveal about the Copyright Wars -- Akihabara: Conditioning a Public "Otaku" Image -- Comic Market: How the World's Biggest Amateur Comic Fair Shaped Japanese Dojinshi Culture -- Styles of Intervention -- Suffering Forces Us to Think beyond the Right-Left Barrier -- Fans Behaving Badly: Anime Metafandom, Brutal Criticism, and the Intellectual Fan -- Anatomy of Permutational Desire: Perversion in Hans Bellmer and Oshii Mamoru -- A Cocoon with a View: Hikikomori, Otaku, and Welcome to the NHK -- Reorganizations of Gender and Nationalism: Gender Bashing and Loliconized Japanese Society -- Aeryn's Dolls -- Review and Commentary -- The Space between Worlds: Mushishi and Japanese Folklore -- Animation beyond the Boundaries -- Three Faces of Eva -- Cruel Angels? Cruel Fathers! -- Epic Fail: Still Dreary, after All These Years -- The Rebuild of Anime -- Brief Visions of a Vast Landscape -- Death Note: The Killer in Me Is the Killer in You -- [omitted] Torendo -- Otakuology: A Dialogue -- Contributors -- Call for Papers.
Abstract:
Passionate fans of anime and manga, known in Japan as otaku and active around the world, play a significant role in the creation and interpretation of this pervasive popular culture. Routinely appropriating and remixing favorite characters, narratives, imagery, and settings, otaku take control of the anime characters they consume. Fanthropologies -the fifth volume in the Mechademia series, an annual forum devoted to Japanese anime and manga-focuses on fans, fan activities, and the otaku phenomenon. The zones of activity discussed in these essays range from fan-subs (fan-subtitled versions of anime and manga) and copyright issues to gender and nationality in fandom, dolls, and other forms of consumption that fandom offers. Individual pieces include a remarkable photo essay on the emerging art of cosplay photography; an original manga about an obsessive doll-fan; and a tour of Akihabara, Tokyo's discount electronics shopping district, by a scholar disguised as a fuzzy animal. Contributors: Madeline Ashby; Jodie Beck, McGill U; Christopher Bolton, Williams College; Naitô Chizuko, Otsuma U; Ian Condry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Martha Cornog; Kathryn Dunlap, U of Central Florida; Ôtsuka Eiji, Kobe Design U; Gerald Figal, Vanderbilt U; Patrick W. Galbraith, U of Tokyo; Marc Hairston, U of Texas at Dallas; Marilyn Ivy, Columbia U; Koichi Iwabuchi, Waseda U; Paul Jackson; Amamiya Karin; Fan-Yi Lam; Thomas Lamarre, McGill U; Paul M. Malone, U of Waterloo; Anne McKnight, U of Southern California; Livia Monnet, U of Montreal; Susan Napier, Tufts U; Kerin Ogg; Timothy Perper; Eron Rauch; Brian Ruh, Indiana U; Nathan Shockey, Columbia U; Marc Steinberg, Concordia U; Jin C. Tomshine, U of California, San Francisco; Carissa Wolf, North Dakota State U.
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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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