AW: end of anime as we know it?

[Stephen Cremin]

Just a quick plug for Jonathan Clements' THE ANIME ENCYCLOPAEDIA being
published by Stone Bridge Press in September.  Currently running at 600
pages with a hefty index.

Stephen

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>From: Aaron Gerow <gerow at ynu.ac.jp>
>To: "KineJapan" <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
>Subject: Re: AW: end of anime as we know it?
>Date: Thu, 5 Jul 01 10:35:12 +0900
>

>Roger,
>
>>I would be interested which other books, texts you use as reference for your
>>manga teachings? I suppose the two Schodt books, but what else? Thanks for
>>any other suggestions.
>
>I hope I don't offend anyone out there, but I still think there is little 
>out there that is very good on manga.  In class, I basically just work on 
>analyzing primary texts and add my own relevant interpretations.
>
>By far, the best books on manga in Japanese are by Natsume Fusanosuke and 
>Yomota Inuhiko, both scholars who don't simply see manga as a reflection 
>of society or culture, but who carefully analyze the texts themselves.  
>Other Japanese scholars I respect include Otsuka Eiji, Fujimoto Yukari, 
>and Kure Tomofusa.  Shimizu Isao is, of course, the main historian of 
>manga, but he is mostly concerned the with pre-Tezuka era.  "How-to" 
>books by Tezuka and Ishinomori can also be interesting.
>
>In English, Schodt's books are clearly invaluable, but I still think his 
>cultural and textual analyses are weak.  Sharon Kinsella's book on Adult 
>Manga is out, but I've had problems with her work before: simplistic 
>theorizing and inaccuracies.  She also is not good at visual analysis.  
>Scott Thorn, who has a home page on shojo manga, has been working hard on 
>doing anthopological analyses of shojo manga readers, but in principle he 
>does not concern himself with textual analysis.  
>
>For general world histories, I occasionally use Will Eisner's Comics and 
>Sequential Art (the precursor to McCloud's book), and histories by Robert 
>Harvey and Roger Savin.
>
>I'd like to hear if others have different favorite reference texts.
>
>Aaron Gerow
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