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Robot Ghosts And Wired Dreams Japanese Science Fiction From Origins To Anime Christopher Bolton

Name: Robot Ghosts And Wired Dreams Japanese Science Fiction From Origins To Anime Christopher Bolton
SKU: BELL-10554518
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Robot Ghosts And Wired Dreams Japanese Science Fiction From Origins To Anime Christopher Bolton instant download after payment.

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press

File Extension: AZW3

File size: 2.73 MB

Author: Christopher Bolton, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., Takayuki Tatsumi

Language: English

Year: 2007

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Robot Ghosts And Wired Dreams Japanese Science Fiction From Origins To Anime Christopher Bolton by Christopher Bolton, Istvan Csicsery-ronay Jr., Takayuki Tatsumi instant download after payment.

Since the end of the Second
World War--and particularly over the last decade--Japanese science fiction has
strongly influenced global popular culture. Unlike American and British science
fiction, its most popular examples have been visual--from Gojira (Godzilla) and
Astro Boy in the 1950s and 1960s to the anime masterpieces Akira and Ghost in
the Shell of the 1980s and 1990s--while little attention has been paid to a
vibrant tradition of prose science fiction in Japan.Robot Ghosts and Wired
Dreams remedies this neglect with a rich exploration of the genre that connects
prose science fiction to contemporary anime. Bringing together Western scholars
and leading Japanese critics, this groundbreaking work traces the beginnings,
evolution, and future direction of science fiction in Japan, its major schools
and authors, cultural origins and relationship to its Western counterparts, the
role of the genre in the formation of Japan's national and political identity,
and its unique fan culture.Covering a remarkable range of texts--from the 1930s
fantastic detective fiction of Yumeno Kyûsaku to the cross-culturally produced
and marketed film and video game franchise Final Fantasy--this book firmly
establishes Japanese science fiction as a vital and exciting genre.Contributors:
Hiroki Azuma; Hiroko Chiba, DePauw U; Naoki Chiba; William O. Gardner,
Swarthmore College; Mari Kotani; Livia Monnet, U of Montreal; Miri Nakamura,
Stanford U; Susan Napier, Tufts U; Sharalyn Orbaugh, U of British Columbia;
Tamaki Saitô; Thomas Schnellbächer, Berlin Free U.Christopher Bolton is
assistant professor of Japanese at Williams College. Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr.
is professor of English at DePauw University. Takayuki Tatsumi is professor of
English at Keio University.