Anime a critical introduction
Anime: A Critical Introduction maps the genres that have thrived within Japanese animation culture, and shows how a wide range of commentators have made sense of anime through discussions of its generic landscape. From the battling robots that define the mecha genre through to Studio Ghibli's d...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
2015
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Add Tag | Summary: | Anime: A Critical Introduction maps the genres that have thrived within Japanese animation culture, and shows how a wide range of commentators have made sense of anime through discussions of its generic landscape. From the battling robots that define the mecha genre through to Studio Ghibli's dominant genre-brand of plucky shojo (young girl) characters, this book charts the rise of anime as a globally significant category of animation. It further thinks through the differences between anime's local and global genres: from the less-considered niches like nichijo-kei (everyday style anime) through to the global popularity of science fiction anime, this book tackles the tensions between the markets and audiences for anime texts. |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 191 pages : 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| ISBN: | 9781847884794 |
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