New Book - Japanese Visual Culture

[Melek Ortabasi]

Hi all,

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.

Japanese Visual Culture: Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime
Edited by: Mark W. MacWilliams
M.E. Sharpe

Foreword: Japan's New Visual Culture
Frederik L. Schodt
Introduction
Mark W. MacWilliams

1. Manga in Japanese History
Kinko Ito
2. Contemporary Anime in Japanese Pop Culture
Gilles Poitras
3. Characters, Themes, and Narrative Patterns in the Manga of Osamu Tezuka
Susanne Phillips
4.From Metropolis to Metoroporisu : The Changing Role of the Robot in 
Japanese and Western Cinema
Lee Makela
5. Opening the Closed World of Shojo Manga
Mizuki Takahashi
6. Situating the Shojo in Shojo Manga : Teenage Girls, Romance 
Comics, and Contemporary Japanese Culture
Deborah Shamoon
7. Intellectuals, Cartoons, and Nationalism During the Russo-Japanese War
Yulia Mikhailova
8. Framing Manga: On Narratives of the Second World War in Japanese 
Manga, 1957-1977
Eldad Nakar
9. Aum Shinrikyo and a Panic about Manga and Anime
Rich Gardner
10. Medieval Genealogies of Manga Horror
Raj Pandey
11. The Utopian "Power to Live": What the Miyazaki Phenomenon Signifies
Hiroshi Yamanaka
12. Heart of Japaneseness: History and Nostalgia in Hayao Miyazaki's 
Spirited Away
Shiro Yoshioka
13. National History as Otaku Fantasy: Satoshi Kon's Millennium Actress
Melek Ortabasi
14. Considering Manga Discourse: Location, Ambiguity, Historicity
Jaqueline Berndt

Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index
-- 
Melek Ortabasi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Comparative Literature
Hamilton College
Clinton, NY
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