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book		100 Anime / Brophy, Philip London: British Film Institute, 2005. Call No: 772 (52) BRO Author: Brophy Philip CorpAuthor: BFI Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 2005 PhysDes: 17 cm; 262 pp Series: BFI Screen Guides Subject: NEON GENESIS EVANGELION (JA, 199?); AKIRA (JA, Katsuhiro Otomo, 1989); SHIN TETSUWAN ATOM [TV] (JA, Noboru Ishiguro & Osamu Tezuko, 1980-1); BLOOD: THE LAST VAMPIRE (CN, Micahel Storey, 1998); KOKAKU KIDOTAI (JA/UK Oshii Mamoru, 1995); TONARI NO TOTORO (JA, Hayao Miyazaki, 1988); STEAMBOY (JA, Katsuhiro Otomo, 2004); SEN TO CHIHIRO NO KAMIKAKUSHI (JA, Hayao Miyazaki, 2001); JAPAN; ANIMATION; MANGA Summary: 100 Anime is an exhilarating guide to the wonderfully complex and beautifully disorientating world of Japanese animation - anime. Philip Brophy delves deep into the chaos of meaning engendered by anime's mutation of Eastern and Western themes, images and sounds, enabling the reader to navigate the post-war shock waves that still propel Japan's popular culture. Individual entries on 100 key anime films, from Akira to Spirited Away by way of Blue Seed, Ghost in the Shell and Neon Genesis Evangeleon, present plot synopses and discussion of the films' sources and influences and major themes, as well as information about the sub genre or genres to which each film belongs, and selected credits. Philip Brophy's introduction to the volume provides a framework for understanding the 100 films in terms of the vast anime industry, as well as explaining how the calligraphic tradition contributed to the development and popularity of anime, and highlighting the events and themes in Japanese culture that have shaped and are reflected in anime. [Taken from back cover] ISBN: 1844570843 More info
title clippings file		BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE, THE : (US/G/UK/NE/BE/FR, Marie Losier, 2011) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE, THE (US/G/UK/NE/BE/FR, Marie Losier, 2011) More info
title clippings file		GENESI: LA CREAZIONE E IL DILUVIO : (IT/GG, Ermanno Olmi, 1994) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: GENESIS: THE CREATION AND THE FLOOD [GENESI: LA CREAZIONE E IL DILUVIO] (IT/GG, Ermanno Olmi, 1994) More info
title clippings file		GENESIS : (FR/IT, Claude Nuridsany and Marie Perennoy, 2004) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings; Publicity Subject: GENESIS (FR/IT, Claude Nuridsany and Marie Perennoy, 2004) ID2: 76 More info
title clippings file		GENESIS TWO POINT OH : (SZ/CC/RU/KO/US, Christian Frei, 2018) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: GENESIS [TWO POINT OH] 2.0 (SZ/CC/RU/KO/US, Christian Frei, 2018) More info
book		Mechademia 4 : War/Time / edited by Frenchy Lunning London: University of Minnesota Press, c2009. Call No: 772(520):737.0 MEC Author: Lunning, Frenchy Source: US Place: Minneapolis; London Publisher: University of Minnesota Press PubDate: c2009 PhysDes: xiv, 338 p. : ill. ; 26 cm Series: Mechademia ; v. 4 Subject: ANIMATION; ANIMATION. JAPAN; COMIC STRIPS; COMIC STRIPS AND THE CINEMA; JAPAN; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. JAPAN; VIDEO GAMES; GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES (JA, Isao Takahata, 1989); HOTARV NO HAKA (JA, Isao Takahata, 1988); NEON GENESIS EVANGELION (JA, 199?) Summary: "The themes of war and time are intertwined in unique ways in Japanese culture, freighted as that nation is with the multiple legacies of World War II: the country's militarization, its victories and defeats, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the uneasy pacifism imposed by the victors. Delving into topics ranging from the production of wartime propoganda to the multimedia adaptations of romance narrative, contributors to the fourth volume in the Mechademia series address the political, cultural, and technological continuum between war and the everyday time of orderly social productivity that is reflected, confronted, and changed in manga, anime, and other forms of Japanese popular culture." -- BOOK BLURB ISBN: 9780816667499 Contents: -- preface: war/time / Thomas Lamarre -- [Part 1]. Legacies of sovereignty. The filmic time of coloniality: on Shinkai Makoto's The Place promised in our early days / Gavin Walker -- Theorizing manga: nationalism and discourse on the role of wartime manga / Rei Okamoto Inouye -- Transcending the victim's history: Takahata Isao's Grave of the fireflies / Wendy Goldberg. [Part 2]. Control room. Gothic politics: Oshii, war, and life without death / Tom Looser -- Oshii Mamoru's Patlabor 2: terror, theatricality, and exceptions that prove the rule / Mark Anderson -- Waiting for the messiah: the becoming-myth of Evangelion and Densha otoko / Christophe Thouny -- War by metaphor in Densha otoko / Michael Fisch. [Part 3]. History/memory. Imagined history, fading memory: mastering narrative in Final Fantasy X / Dennis Washburn -- Haunted travelogue: hometowns, ghost towns, and memories of war / Michael Dylan Foster -- Three views of the rising sun, obliquely: Keiji Nakazawa's A-bomb, Osamu Tezuka's Adolf, and Yoshinori Kobayashi's Apologia / Sheng-Mei Ma -- Virtual creation, simulated destruction, and manufactured memory at the Art Mecho Museum in Second life / Christopher Bolton. [Part 4]. Genre violence. Ninja, Hidden Christians, and the two Ferreiras: On Endo Shusaku and Yamada Futaro / Takayuki Tatsumi ; translated by Seth Jacobowitz -- Monsters at war: the great Yo¯kai Wars, 1968-2005 / Zilia Papp -- From Jusuheru to Jannu: girl knights and christian witches in the work of Miuchi Suzue / Rebecca Suter. [Part 5]. Mobilization/Domestication. Empire through the eyes of a Yapoo: male abjection in the cult classic Beast Yapoo / Christine Marran -- Nippon ex machina: Japanese postwar identity in robot anime and the case of UFO Robo Grendizer / Marco Pellitteri -- Kobayashi Yoshinori is dead: imperial war/sick liberal peace/neoliberal class war / Mark Driscoll -- Manga: a comic interlude from Darumasan-ga-koronda, "Land mine in Central Park" / Yoji Sakate ; translated by Manami Shima, art by Chinami Sango -- Review and commentary -- two phases of Japanese illustrated fiction / Charles Shiro Inouye -- paradise lost...and found? / Paul Jackson -- molten hot: Japanese gal subcultures and fashions / Theresa M. Winge -- monstrous toys of capitalism / Brent Allison -- if Casshern doesn't do it, who will? / Deborah Shamoon -- psychoanalytic cyberpunk midsummer-night's dreamtime: Kon Satoshi's Paprika / Timothy Perper and Martha Cornog -- Torendo -- interview with Murase Shuko and Sato Dai / Deborah Scally, Angela Drummond - Mathews and Marc Hairston -- More info
title clippings file		NEON GENESIS EVANGELION : (JA, 199?) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: NEON GENESIS EVANGELION (JA, 199?) More info
book		Towards a heroic cinema / Utpal Dutt Calcutta: M.C. Sarkar & Sons, 1994. Call No: 802.25 DUT Author: Datta, Utpal Place: Calcutta Publisher: M.C. Sarkar & Sons PubDate: 1994 PhysDes: 91 p. : ill. ; 22 cm Subject: KUROSAWA AKIRA; RAY, SATYAJIT; DUTT, UTPAL; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; SEN, MRINAL; MRIGAYAA (II, Mrinal Sen, 1977); GENESIS (II/FR/BE/SZ, Mrinal Sen, 1986) Summary: Criticisms on the work of film makers, chiefly from India; articles ISBN: 817157050X : Rs50.00 ($10.00 U.S.) LON: 95902318; 11731845 ID2: 291 More info

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