<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><a name="LETTER.BLOCK6"><table border="0" width="100%" tabindex="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" id="content_LETTER.BLOCK6" style="margin-bottom: 5px; "><tbody><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1" align="left" style="color: rgb(33, 67, 82); font-family: 'Century Gothic', 'ITC Avant Garde', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 270px; "><font color="#214352" size="2" face="Century Gothic,ITC Avant Garde,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" style="color: rgb(33, 67, 82); font-family: 'Century Gothic', 'ITC Avant Garde', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14pt; "><strong>Mechademia 5</strong></span><br><em><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Fanthropologies</span></strong></em><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Frenchy Lunning, editor</span><br><br><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0); "><strong>From fan-subs to cosplay, exploring the fan cultures inspired by anime and manga</strong></span><br><br>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. <br><br><em>Fanthropologies</em> -- 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.<br><br><strong>Contributors:</strong> Madeline Ashby; Jodie Beck, McGill U; Christopher Bolton, Williams College; Naitō Chizuko, Otsuma U; Ian Condry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Martha Cornog; Kathryn Dunlap, U of Central Florida; Ōtsuka 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.<br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px; "><br><br></div><span style="font-size: 8pt; ">University of Minnesota Press | 392 pages | 60 b&w photos | 9 color photos <br>1 table | 2010</span><br><span style="font-size: 8pt; ">ISBN 978-0-8166-7387-2 | paper | $24.95</span><br><a track="on" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=97cwt9cab&et=1103930697597&s=4682&e=001KOgEKOfgQsSAW0GpyA1cK6b6hrpSD3IxNmIJw6nlTITMamFep-hLxknb14AU2utz80yRag7eg7r9ttY_A-2_sv0_wdq3ndbqloa7XrHHoYRgqQ-urfhn66-0jzsJqrwuht-oWb_yhkI0B0_ZRkOxyQ==" shape="rect" linktype="link" target="_blank" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; font-size: 8pt; ">Mechademia Series, volume 5</a><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); ">Click for </span><a track="on" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=97cwt9cab&et=1103930697597&s=4682&e=001KOgEKOfgQsQXzkFwJV_TP52UeS8Wp8TfLTu0kC41gorLbFrk_l9f8w1pkL9GYUVf_XANussSC5BGm27xA5hiYG45NXUACNVyIi8CrIsjBOR9D-nLb2KxlCyXOLLxOHqDjvhx7oSJf_it-fE4T3PUgY7BG7TXrmAjoDr4ZmxI254=" shape="rect" linktype="link" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; ">more information</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); ">, including the table of contents.</span><br></font></td></tr></tbody></table></a><div><br></div></body></html>