Fwd: KineJapan / MECHADEMIA 2: Networks of Desire

[Aaron Gerow]

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> Traces the web of desires that connects Japanese popular culture  
> and its fans
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> MECHADEMIA 2: Networks of Desire
> Frenchy Lunning, editor
> University of Minnesota Press | 316 pages | 2007
> ISBN 978-0-8166-5266-2 | paperback | $19.95
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> Networks of Desire?the second volume in the Mechademia series, an  
> annual forum devoted to critical and creative work on Japanese  
> anime, manga, and the fan cultures that have coalesced around them? 
> explores the varieties of desire that structure and influence much  
> of contemporary anime and manga in manifestations that range from  
> the explicitly sexual to more sublimated text and imagery.
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> "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 phenomenon 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 you 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
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> Contributors: Brent Allison, Meredith Suzanne Hahn Aquila, Hiroki  
> Azuma, William L. Benzon, Christopher Bolton, Martha Cornog,  
> Patrick Drazen, Marc Hairston, Mari Kotani, Shu Kuge, Margherita  
> Long, Daisuke Miyao, Hiromi Mizuno, Mariana Ortega, Timothy Perper,  
> Eron Rauch, Trina Robbins, Brian Ruh, Deborah Shamoon, Masami Toku,  
> Keith Vincent.
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> For more information, including the table of contents, visit the  
> book?s webpage:
> http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/L/lunning_mechademia2.html
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