Patrick Drazen

Anime Explosion!

The What? Why? & Wow! of Japanese Animation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

One of the best overviews of the anime phenomenon, its history and cultural significance, ideal for surveys and in-depth study.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stone Bridge Press
• Revised, Expanded edition
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9781611720136
• ISBN-10: 1611720133
• Artikelnr.: 39407923

Autorenporträt

Patrick Drazen has presented at the 2004 Schoolgirls and Mobilesuits, at Yaoi-Con in 2002, at the 2006 Cherry Blossom Festival Anime Marathon at the Freer Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, and for several years at Anime Central in Chicago. He's been at anime conventions in Columbus, Indianapolis, and Peoria, and gave a talk on anime based on western literature at his alma mater Illinois Wesleyan University for Homecoming 2012. He also gave talks about anime at Mayor Daley's Book Club, an annual literacy festival for local authors. He's written articles on anime for Animation magazine and the British magazine SFX, on manga for Time Out New York, sits on the Editorial Board for Mechademia journal, and participated in a panel discussion in 2006 with Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino as part of the Chicago International Film Festival. Drazen has an extensive anime collection, from Betamax to DVD, and his presentations have touched on Japanese folklore in modern anime, same-sex relationships, and the fluid nature of heroes and villains in anime.

Inhaltsangabe

PREFACE
INTRODUCTION TO THE 2ND EDITION (and why there probably won't
be a 3rd edition)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PART I
1. A Page Right Out of History
2. Conventions versus Clichés
3. The Social Web and the Lone Wolf
4. Mukashi Mukashi
5. The Naked Truth
6. Rated H
7. A Very Pure Thing
8. Bushido
9. Shojodo
10. Enter the Mamagon
11. Faith Based
12. Who Ya Gonna Call?
13. The Starmaker Machinery
14. It's Not Easy Being Green
15. War and Anti-War
16. Birth, Death and Rebirth
PART 2
1. Windaria
2. Wings of Honneamise
3. Revolutionary Girl Utena
4. Giant Robo
5. Flying with Ghibli
6. The Sailor Moon Phenomenon
7. Escaflowne
8. Evangelion
9. Please Save My Earth (add Tokyo Tower sidebar)
10. The Big Pokemon Scare
11. Plastic Little
12. Masamune Shirow
13. Satoshi Kon
14. CLAMP (including Moe sidebar)
15. Fullmetal Alchemist
16. Key the Metal Idol
AFTERWORD