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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Livia beat me to this! This is one of the most thoughtful and thought-provoking pieces of writing on anime we’ve seen so far—on <I>animation</I>, frankly. And the book is beautifully produced to boot! <BR>
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I also noticed that Mellon has a new Japanese film book: <BR>
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Censorship of Japanese Films During the US Occupation of Japan: The Cases of Yasujiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa, by Lars-Martin Sorensen. <BR>
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<a href="http://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=7821&pc=9jim,">http://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=7821&pc=9jim,</a><BR>
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On 12/1/09 4:30 PM, "Livia Monnet" <rodica-livia.monnet@umontreal.ca> wrote:<BR>
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Hi everyone. Tom Lamarre's brilliant new book, " The Anime Machine," has<BR>
just been published. It should be in all collections of books on<BR>
animation/anime and contemporary media. Here is a brief presentation.<BR>
Greetings, livia<BR>
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Presents a foundational theory of animation and what it reveals about our<BR>
relationship to technology<BR>
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THE ANIME MACHINE: A Media Theory of Animation<BR>
By Thomas Lamarre<BR>
University of Minnesota Press | 424 pages | 2009<BR>
ISBN 978-0-8166-5154-2 | hardcover | $75.00<BR>
ISBN 978-0-8166-5155-9 | paperback | $24.95<BR>
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Despite the longevity of animation and its significance within the history<BR>
of cinema, film theorists have focused on live-action motion pictures and<BR>
largely ignored hand-drawn and computer-generated movies. Thomas Lamarre<BR>
contends that animation demands sustained engagement, and in The Anime<BR>
Machine he lays the foundation for a new critical theory for reading<BR>
Japanese animation, showing how anime fundamentally differs from other<BR>
visual media.<BR>
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"Combining superb scholarship, a palpable passion for his subject, and a<BR>
singular sensibility for the art of the moving image, Thomas Lamarre has<BR>
produced a landmark work in cultural theory and media history. The Anime<BR>
Machine navigates the intercultural and transmedia complexities of the<BR>
worlds of anime with expertise and originality. Everyone from the anime<BR>
enthusiast to the philosopher will come away with a heightened appreciation<BR>
of one of the defining art forms of our era." -Brian Massumi, author of<BR>
Parables for the Virtual<BR>
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"With the help of thinkers such as Deleuze and Guattari, Thomas Lamarre<BR>
identifies in anime an originary machinic force, one that traverses both<BR>
animation and cinema, with a capacity for heteropoeisis through<BR>
technological practices. This is an inspiringly sophisticated and<BR>
imaginative book." -Rey Chow, author of Sentimental Fabulations,<BR>
Contemporary Chinese Films<BR>
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Thomas Lamarre is professor of East Asian studies, art history, and<BR>
communications studies at McGill University. He is on the senior board of<BR>
Mechademia: An Annual Forum for Anime, Manga, and Fan Arts (published<BR>
annually by the University of Minnesota Press) and author of Shadows on the<BR>
Screen: Tanizaki Jun'ichirô on Cinema and Oriental Aesthetics and<BR>
Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription.<BR>
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For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's<BR>
webpage:<BR>
<a href="http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/L/lamarre_anime.html">http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/L/lamarre_anime.html</a><BR>
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