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all,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="+2" color="#000000">I haven't
seen any other announcements about the book, so I'll post one myself
at the risk of being accused of self-promotion;-) The work of several
KineJapanners is included. It is available both in hard- and softback.
Apologies for cross-posting.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="+2" color="#000000">Japanese
Visual Culture: Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime<br>
Edited by: Mark W. MacWilliams</font></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="+2" color="#000000">M.E.
Sharpe</font></div>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="+2" color="#000000">Foreword:
Japan's New Visual Culture<br>
Frederik L. Schodt<br>
Introduction<br>
Mark W. MacWilliams<br>
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1. Manga in Japanese History<br>
Kinko Ito<br>
2. Contemporary Anime in Japanese Pop Culture<br>
Gilles Poitras<br>
3. Characters, Themes, and Narrative Patterns in the Manga of Osamu
Tezuka<br>
Susanne Phillips<br>
4.From Metropolis to Metoroporisu : The Changing Role of the Robot in
Japanese and Western Cinema<br>
Lee Makela<br>
5. Opening the Closed World of Shojo Manga<br>
Mizuki Takahashi<br>
6. Situating the Shojo in Shojo Manga : Teenage Girls, Romance Comics,
and Contemporary Japanese Culture<br>
Deborah Shamoon<br>
7. Intellectuals, Cartoons, and Nationalism During the Russo-Japanese
War<br>
Yulia Mikhailova<br>
8. Framing Manga: On Narratives of the Second World War in Japanese
Manga, 1957-1977<br>
Eldad Nakar<br>
9. Aum Shinrikyo and a Panic about Manga and Anime<br>
Rich Gardner<br>
10. Medieval Genealogies of Manga Horror<br>
Raj Pandey<br>
11. The Utopian "Power to Live": What the Miyazaki
Phenomenon Signifies<br>
Hiroshi Yamanaka<br>
12. Heart of Japaneseness: History and Nostalgia in Hayao Miyazaki's
Spirited Away<br>
Shiro Yoshioka<br>
13. National History as Otaku Fantasy: Satoshi Kon's Millennium
Actress<br>
Melek Ortabasi<br>
14. Considering Manga Discourse: Location, Ambiguity, Historicity<br>
Jaqueline Berndt<br>
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Bibliography<br>
About the Contributors</font></div>
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<div>Melek Ortabasi, Ph.D.<br>
Assistant Professor<br>
Department of Comparative Literature<br>
Hamilton College<br>
Clinton, NY</div>
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