FW: Book Announcement / THE ANIME MACHINE

[Livia Monnet]

Hi everyone. Tom Lamarre's brilliant new book, " The Anime Machine," has
just been published. It should be in all collections of books on
animation/anime and contemporary media. Here is a brief presentation.
Greetings, livia
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Presents a foundational theory of animation and what it reveals about our
relationship to technology

THE ANIME MACHINE: A Media Theory of Animation
By Thomas Lamarre
University of Minnesota Press | 424 pages | 2009
ISBN 978-0-8166-5154-2 | hardcover | $75.00
ISBN 978-0-8166-5155-9 | paperback | $24.95

Despite the longevity of animation and its significance within the history
of cinema, film theorists have focused on live-action motion pictures and
largely ignored hand-drawn and computer-generated movies. Thomas Lamarre
contends that animation demands sustained engagement, and in The Anime
Machine he lays the foundation for a new critical theory for reading
Japanese animation, showing how anime fundamentally differs from other
visual media.

"Combining superb scholarship, a palpable passion for his subject, and a
singular sensibility for the art of the moving image, Thomas Lamarre has
produced a landmark work in cultural theory and media history. The Anime
Machine navigates the intercultural and transmedia complexities of the
worlds of anime with expertise and originality. Everyone from the anime
enthusiast to the philosopher will come away with a heightened appreciation
of one of the defining art forms of our era." -Brian Massumi, author of
Parables for the Virtual

 "With the help of thinkers such as Deleuze and Guattari, Thomas Lamarre
identifies in anime an originary machinic force, one that traverses both
animation and cinema, with a capacity for heteropoeisis through
technological practices. This is an inspiringly sophisticated and
imaginative book." -Rey Chow, author of Sentimental Fabulations,
Contemporary Chinese Films


Thomas Lamarre is professor of East Asian studies, art history, and
communications studies at McGill University. He is on the senior board of
Mechademia: An Annual Forum for Anime, Manga, and Fan Arts (published
annually by the University of Minnesota Press) and author of Shadows on the
Screen: Tanizaki Jun'ichirô  on Cinema and Oriental Aesthetics and
Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription.

For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's
webpage:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/L/lamarre_anime.html