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Call No: DVD RESEARCH FOLDER
Subject: DVD; DVD, FILMS ON; HOME EQUIPMENT; HOME EXHIBITION; PRESERVATION OF FILMS; CRITERION COLLECTION; MANGA; BROOKER, WILL; AROSTEGUY, SUSAN; LORD OF THE RINGS: FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, THE (US, Peter Jackson, 2001); LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS, THE (US, Peter Jackson, 2002); LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING, THE (US, Peter Jackson, 2003); FIGHT CLUB (US, David Fincher, 1999)
Contents: A DVD edition of Velvet Light Trap. Index follows:; -- Introduction.; -- Craig Hight - Making-of documentaries on DVD: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and Special Editions.; -- Nathan Carroll - Unwrapping archives: DVD Restoration Demonstrations and the markteting of authenticity.; -- Bradley Schauer - The Criterion Collection in the New Home Video Market: An interview with Susan Arosteguy.; -- Derek Johnson - Star Wars fans, DVD, and cultural ownership: an interview with Will Brooker.; -- Laurie Cubbison - Anime Fans, DVDs, and the authentic text.; -- James Kendrick - Aspect ratios and Joe Six-Packs: home theatre enthusiasts' battle to legitimze the DVD experience.

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

Call No: 81MIY CAV
Author: Cavallaro, Dani
Source: US
Place: Jefferson, N. C.
Publisher: McFarland & Company Inc.
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: viii, 204p. ; 26cm.
Subject: MANGA; MIYAZAKI, HAYAO; KAZE NO TANI NO NAUSHIKA (JA, Hayao Miyazaki, 1984); TENKU NO SHIRO RAPYUTA (JA, Hayao Miyazaki, 1986); TONARI NO TOTORO (JA, Hayao Miyazaki, 1988); HOTARV NO HAKA (JA, Isao Takahata, 1988); GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES (JA, Isao Takahata, 1989); MAJO NO TAKKYUBIN (JA, Hayao Miyazaki, 1989); KURENAI NO BUTA (JA, Hayao Miyazaki, 1993); ON YOUR MARK (JA, Hayao Miyaki, 1995); MIMI WO SUMASEBA (JA, Yoshifumi Kondo, 1995); MONONOKE HIME (JA, Hayao Miyazaki, 1997); SEN TO CHIHIRO NO KAMIKAKUSHI (JA, Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
Summary: This critical study of Miyazaki’s work begins with an analysis of the visual conventions of manga, Japanese comic books, and animé; an overview of Japanese animated films; and a consideration of the techniques deployed by both traditional cel and computer animation. This section also details Miyazaki’s early forays into comic books and animation, and his output prior to his founding of Studio Ghibli. Part Two concentrates on the Studio Ghibli era, outlining the company’s development and analyzing the director’s productions between 1984 and 2004, including Castle in the Sky, My Neighbor Totoro and his newest film, Howl’s Moving Castle. The second section also discusses other productions involving Studio Ghibli, including Grave of the Fireflies and The Cat Returns. Appendices supply additional information about Studio Ghibli’s merchandise production, Miyazaki’s global fan base, and the output of other Ghibli directors.
Notes: Includes bibliography and index. Filmography: p. 181-186.
ISBN: 0786423692

Call No: 772 (52) DRA
Author: Drazen, Patrick
Source: US
Place: Berkeley, Calif.
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
PubDate: 2003
PhysDes: 369 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: ANIMATION; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS. ASIA; MIYAZAKI, HAYAO; UTENA: THE MOVIE (JA, Kunihiko Ikuhara, 2000); MANGA
Summary: Looks at Japanese animation from the inside, from its roots in ancient Japanese culture to its major themes and motifs - war, anti-war, religion, ghosts, and reincarnation, giant robots and mecha, cute gay/girl/fanboy love, samurai, folk heroes, athletes, and mothers, diligence, duty and love of nature. He also probes the influence of manga and the works of leading directors like Hayao Miyazaka and Masamune Shirow, providing detailed commentaries on some of fandom's favourite films, including Escaflowne, Sailor Moon, Ghost in the Shell, and Evangelion.
Notes: Afterword: The Future of Anime: p.349-357 Bibliography: p.359-362 Index of Names and Titles: p.363-369 Includes Viewing Notes
ISBN: 1880656728

Call No: 802.46(52) ANI
Source: US
Place: San Francisco, California
Publisher: Cadence Books
PubDate: 1997
PhysDes: 192 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Subject: ANIMATION. JAPAN; ANIMATORS. JAPAN; MANGA
Summary: "In this book you will hear insights directly froi the mouths and minds of the anime and manga creators themselves, in interviews which are often the only ones on record in English. Some of these creatirs are larger-than-life legends in their native Japan, some are up-and-coming young talents, but all have a lot to say on the subject of their work" -- taken from back cover
ISBN: 1569312206
Donation: donated by Alex Gionfriddo0
Contents: Introduction/ by the editors of Animerica -- Yoshiyuki Tomino / by James Matsuzaki -- Rumiko Takahashi / by Seiji Horibuchi -- Hayao Miyazaki / by Takashi Oshiguchi -- Masamune Shirow / by Trish Ledoux -- Ryoichi Ikegami / by Satoru Fujii -- Yukito Kishiro / by Seiji Horibuchi -- Yoshiki Takaya / by Takashi Oshiguchi -- Kosuke Fujishima / by Junco Ito -- Yasushiro Imagawa / by Takayuki Karahashi -- Hiroki Hayashi / by Takashi Oshiguchi -- Haruka Takachiho / by Takayuki Karahashi -- Hiroyuki Kitazume / by Takashi Oshiguchi -- Shoji Kawamori / by Takashi Oshiguchi -- Kei Kusunoki / by Takayuki Karahashi -- Buichi Terasawa / by Takayuki Karahashi -- Mamoru Oshii / by Carl Gustav Horn -- Gisaburo Sugii / by Toshifumi Yoshida -- Leiji Matsumoto / by Takayuki Karahashi -- Ryosuke Takahashi / by Takayuki Karahashi -- Nanase Okawa / by Takashi Oshiguchi -- Index -- Contributors

Call No: 737(5-012) DIV
Source: US
Place: Honolulu
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
PubDate: 2016
PhysDes: viii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject: WAR AND THE CINEMA; WAR FILMS; WORLD WAR II AND THE CINEMA; WORLD WAR II FILMS; WORLD WAR II FILMS. JAPAN; WORLD WAR II FILMS. USA; WORLD WAR II FILMS. CHINA; KOREAN WAR FILMS; SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR FILMS; TAIWAN; MANGA; VIDEO GAMES; COMPUTER GAMES; NATIONALISM AND THE CINEMA; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS; [TWO THOUSAND AND NINE] 2009: LOST MEMORIES [2009 IOSEUTEU MAEMORIJEU] (KO, Si-myung Lee, 2002); BAMBOO HOUSE OF DOLLS [NU JIZHONGYING] (HK, Kuei Chih-Hung, 1973); CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI, THE (AT/CC/GE, Roger Spottiswoode, 2007); FRIENDS (JP/KO, 2002); SCARLET ROSE: THE GODDESSES OF JINLING [XUESE MEIGUI: JINLING NUSHEN] [TV](CC, Yu Liqing, 2007)
Summary: Exploring how the years of 1931-1953 have been recreated and negotiated in cinema. This period saw conflicts such as the Sino-Japanese War, the Pacific War, and the Korean War and events such as the Rape of Nanjing, Pearl harbor, the Battle of Iwo Jima, and the bomibings of Hiroshina and Nagasaki. The films relating to the experiences of the countries China, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and other Far East countries, as well as the United States of America are examined. - partially taken from cover
Notes: Formerly CIP. -- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-305), filmography, television and video game lists (pages 281-290) and index
ISBN: 9780824851514
Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema
Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Divided Lenses / Michael Berry -- Part I : screen histories of war in East Asia -- War, history, and remembrance in Chinese cinema / Yingjin Zhang -- Of female spies and national heroes : a brief history of anti-Japanese films in Taiwan from the 1950s to the 1970s / Wenchi Lin -- The "division blockbuster" in South Korea: the evolution of cinematic representations of war and division / Hyangjin Lee -- Under the flag of the rising sun: imagining and reimagining the Pacific war in the Japanese cinema / David Desser -- Japanese manga and anime on the Asia-Pacific war experience / Kyu Hyun Kim -- Continuity and change in Hollywood's representations of American-Asian relations in war and peace / Robert Brent Toplin -- Part II : reading war trauma -- Oscillating histories : representations of comfort women from Bamboo House of Dolls to Imperial Comfort Women / Lily Wong -- Shooting the enemy : photographic attachment in The Children of Huang Shi and Scarlet Rose / Michael Berry -- War and nationalism in recent Japanese cinema : Yamato, trauma, and forgetting the postwar / Aaron Gerow -- The promise and limits of "pop culture diplomacy" in East Asia : contexts-texts-reception / Chiho Sawada -- History and its alternatives : war games as social form / Eric Hayot

Call No: 772(52) SCH
Author: Schodt, Frederik L., 1950
Place: Berkeley, Calif.
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
PubDate: 1996
PhysDes: 360 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm
Subject: MANGA; ANIMATION; CARTOONS; COMIC STRIPS
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 348-356) and index
ISBN: 188065623X (paper)
LON: 12295069

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: HOKUSAI MANGA (JA, Kaneto Shindo, 1982)

Call No: 71(52) OXF
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 2014
PhysDes: xii, 483 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Series: Oxford handbooks of literature
Subject: JAPAN; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. JAPAN; INDUSTRY, FILM. JAPAN; ANIME; MANGA; TSUKAMOTO SHINYA; MIIKE TAKASHI; MIZOGUCHI KENJI; YASUJIRO OZU
Summary: Features twenty essays, all by leading researchers in the field, that provide the reader with a multifaceted single-volume account of Japanese cinema Engages in debates about what Japanese cinema is, where Japanese cinema is, as well as what and where Japanese cinema studies is The reality of transnational innovation and dissemination of new technologies, including digital media, has yet to make a dent in the deep-seated culturalism that insists on reinscribing a divide between the West and Japan, even in realms of technological activity that are quite evidently dispersed across cultures. Film and media studies are not immune to this trend. They continue to fret over the "Westernness" of film technologies vis-à-vis the apparently self-evident "Japaneseness" of other modes of cultural production. The main goal of The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema is to counter this trend toward dichotomizing the West and Japan and to challenge the pervasive culturalism of today's film and media studies. This volume addresses productive debates about what Japanese cinema is, where Japanese cinema is, and where Japanese cinema is going at the period of crisis of national boundary under globalization. In order to do so, this volume attempts to foster dialogue between Japanese scholars of Japanese cinema, film scholars of Japanese cinema based in Anglo-American and European countries, film scholars of non-Japanese cinema, film archivists, film critics, and filmmakers familiar with film scholarship. [Extract taken from publisher's website]
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9780199731664
Contents: -- Introduction -- What is Japanese cinema studies?: Japanese cinema and cinema studies. Japanese film without Japan: toward an undisciplined film studies / Eric Cazdyn -- Triangulating Japanese film style / Ben Singer -- Critical reception: historical conceptions of Japanese film criticism / Aaron Gerow -- Creating the audience: cinema as popular recreation and social education in modern Japan / Hideaki Fujiki -- What is Japanese cinema?: Japanese cinema and the transnational network. Adaptation as "transcultural mimesis" / Michael Raine -- The edge of montage: a case of modernism/modanizumu in Japanese cinema / Chika Kinoshita -- Nationalizing Madame Butterfly: the formation of female stars in Japanese cinema / Daisuke Miyao -- Performing colonial identity: Byeonsa, colonial film spectatorship, and the formation of national cinema in Korea under Japanese colonial rule / Dong Hoon Kim -- Outpost of hybridity: Paramount's campaign in Japan, 1952-1962 / Hiroshi Kitamura -- Erasing China in Japan's "Hong Kong films" / Kwai Cheung Lo -- The emergence of the Asian Film Festival: Cold War Asia and Japan's re-entrance to the regional film industry in the 1950s / Sang Joon Lee -- Yamagata "Asia" Europe: International Film Festival short-circuit / Abe´ Mark Nornes -- What Japanese cinema is!: Japanese cinema and the intermedial practices. Nitrate film production in Japan: a historical background of the early days / Okada Hidenori ; translated by Ayako Saito -- Sketches of silent Film sound in Japan: theatrical functions of ballyhoo, orchestras and Kabuki ensembles / Shuhei Hosokawa -- The Jidaigeki film genre: Twilight Samurai and its contexts / Yamamoto Ichiro ; translated by Diane Wei Lewis -- Occupation and memory: the representation of woman's body in postwar Japanese cinema / Ayako Saito -- reading Nishijin (1961) as cinematic memory / Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano -- by other hands: environment and apparatus in 1960s intermedia / Miryam Sas -- viral contagion in the Ringu intertext / Carlos Rojas -- media mix and the metaphoric economy of world / Alexander Zahlten -- index --
ID2: 291

Call No: 81MIY MIY
Author: Miyazaki, Hayao
Edition: English edition
Source: JA/US
Place: San Francisco, California
Publisher: VIZ Media
PubDate: c2009
PhysDes: 461 pages : colour illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject: ANIMATION. JAPAN; ANIMATORS; AUTHORSHIP; DIRECTION; DIRECTORS. JAPAN; JAPAN; MANGA; STUDIO GHIBLI; MIYAZAKI, HAYAO
Summary: "In the first two decades of his career, filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki laid the groundwork for his legendary movies. Starting Point: 1979-1006 is a collection of essays, interviews, and memoirs that go back to the roots of Miyazaki's childhood, the formulation of his theories of animation, and the founding of Studio Ghibli. Before directing such acclaimed films as Spirited Away, Miyazaki was just another salaried animator, but with a vision of his own. Follow him as he takes his first steps on the road to success; experience his frustrations with the manga and animation industries that often suffocate creativity; and realise the importance of bringing the childhood dreams of the world to life." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Originally published: Japan : Tokuma Shoten, 1996. -- includes biographical chronology -- translated into English from the Japanese -- Miyazaki's second autobiography, Turning Point, is also available in the collection
ISBN: 9781421561042
Language: English

Call No: 81MIY MIY
Author: Hayao Miyazaki
Edition: English edition
Source: JA/US
Place: San Francisco, California
Publisher: VIZ Media
PubDate: c2014
PhysDes: 452 pages : colour illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject: ANIMATION. JAPAN; ANIMATORS; AUTHORSHIP; DIRECTION; DIRECTORS. JAPAN; JAPAN; MANGA; STUDIO GHIBLI; MIYAZAKI, HAYAO; PRINCESS MONONOKE (JA, Hayao Miyazaki, 1997); MONONOKE HIME (JA, Hayao Miyazaki, 1997); SEN TO CHIHIRO NO KAMIKAKUSHI (JA, Hayao Miyazaki, 2001); SPIRITED AWAY (JA, Hayao Miyazaki, 2001); PONYO (JP, Hayao Miyazaki, 2008); GAKE NO EU NO PONYO (JP, Hayao Miyazaki, 2008)
Summary: "In the mid-1990s, filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki moved from success to success as his work found an audience outside of Japan. His animated films of the era, including Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle, and Ponyo, were internationally lauded, and Miyazaki won an Academy Award in 2003 for his popular and critical hit Spirited Away. Follow Miyazaki as his vision matures, as cinema-lovers worldwide embrace his creations, and critics such as Roger Ebert take up the cause of animation and Miyazaki's films." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Originally published in Japan as Orikaeshiten, 1997-1998, by Iwanami Shoten, Publishers, 2008 -- Miyazaki's first autobiography, Starting Point, also available in the collection
ISBN: 9781421560908
Language: English