Fwd: MECHADEMIA 1: Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga

[Aaron Gerow]

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>
> A groundbreaking exploration of anime, manga, and Japanese popular 
> culture.
>
> MECHADEMIA 1: Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga
> Frenchy Lunning, editor
> University of Minnesota Press | 184 pages | 2006
> ISBN 0-8166-4945-6 | paperback | $19.95
> Mechademia Series, volume 1
>
> Mechademia, a new annual edited by Frenchy Lunning, begins an 
> innovative and fresh conversation among scholars, critics, and fans 
> about the complexity of art forms like Superflat, manga, and anime. 
> The premier issue features the interactive worlds that anime and manga 
> have created, including the origins of cosplay, depictions of 
> werewolves, forgotten images from a founding manga artist, video game 
> interactivity, the nature of anime fandom in America, and the 
> globalization of manga.
>
> ?Japan's pop culture, once believed unexportable, is now hitting the 
> shores of other nations like a tsunami. In North America, young fans 
> consume vast amounts of manga and anime, while academics increasingly 
> study the entire j-pop phenomena to understand it. One community has 
> passion while the other has discipline, and what has been lacking is a 
> bridge between the two. Mechademia is the bridge, and with a name like 
> that, how can one go wrong? ?So why wait? Hop in your giant mobile 
> suit and stomp down to the local real or virtual bookstore to purchase 
> a copy right now!? ?Frederik L. Schodt, author of Manga! Manga! The 
> World of Japanese Comics
>
> ?Mechademia 1 is a juicy compendium that casts a wide net over the 
> worlds of manga and anime. Following myriad paths of aesthetic and 
> sociological analysis, the book reveals (and revels in) the richness 
> of these wildly popular media and their impact upon games, art, the 
> academy, and fan-based communities. The scholarship is strong and 
> diverse?this is a beautiful, lively book which has something for the 
> otaku in all of us.? ?Scott Bukatman, author of Matters of Gravity: 
> Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century
>
> ?This is the inaugural volume of an academic-level annual devoted to 
> anime, manga, and related art forms and issues. A great first effort, 
> recommended for all academic and public libraries.? ?Library Journal
>
> Contributors: Anne Allison, William L. Benzon, Christopher Bolton, 
> Vern L. Bullough, Martha Cornog, Patrick Drazen, Marc Hairston, Mari 
> Kotani, Thomas LaMarre, Antonia Levi, Thomas Looser, Susan Napier, 
> Michelle Ollie, Timothy Perper, Sara Pocock, Brian Ruh, Takayuki 
> Tatsumi, Toshiya Ueno, Theresa Winge, Mark J. P. Wolf, Wendy Siuyi 
> Wong.
>
> For more information, including the table of contents, visit the 
> book?s webpage:
> http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/L/lunning_mechademia1.html