3) A Case Study of Anime, Another Thread

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WEEK 9/December 1st  
Required Readings:
Napier, Susan J. 2001. “Anime and Local/Global Identity”. In Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation. Palgrave Macmillan.15-24. 

 Otmazgin, Nissim. 2016. “Soft Powering Popular Culture: Discourse and Policy Making in Japan’s Content Industries.” In Social Commentary on State and Society in Modern Japan, edited by Y Sugita, 1–181. doi:10.1007/978-981-10-2395-8.[click HERE]

Orbaugh, Sharalyn. 2006. “Frankenstein and the Cyborg Metropolis: The Evolution of Body and City in Science Fiction Narratives”. In Cinema Anime: Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation. Edited by Brown Stephen. Palgrave McMillian. 81-111. [click HERE]


REFERENCE READING:
Schaub. Joseph, C. 2001. “Kusanagi's body: Gender and technology in mecha‐anime”. Asian Journal of Communication. Vol 11.[click HERE]

ADDED
Lamarre, Thomas. 2002. “Between Cinema and Anime.” Japan Forum 14 (January 2015): 183–89. doi:10.1080/09555800220136347. [CLICK HERE]
     NOTE: Lamarre is the must-read for (Japanese) animation/media culture.  His new research is in Chinese animation!!!  The animation of China: An interim report

Monnet, Livia. 2002. Towards the Feminine Sublime, or the Story of “a Twinkling Monad, Shape-Shifting across Dimension”: Intermediality, Fantasy and Special Effects in Cyberpunk Film and Animation. Japan Forum. Vol. 14. doi:10.1080/09555800220136374. [click HERE]


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