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Mechademia 2: Networks of Desire (Mechamedia)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9780816652662
ISBN: 081665266X
Label: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Manufacturer: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 184
Publication Date: 2007-12-26
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Studio: Univ Of Minnesota Press

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“Japan's pop culture, once believed unexportable, is now hitting the shores of other nations like a tsunami. In North America, young fans consume vast amounts of manga and anime, while academics increasingly study the entire J-pop phenomenon to understand it. One community has passion while the other has discipline, and what has been lacking is a bridge between the two. Mechademia is the bridge, and with a name like that, how can one go wrong?  So why wait? Hop in your giant mobile suit and stomp down to the local real or virtual bookstore to purchase a copy right now!” —Frederik L. Schodt, author of Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics

 

Networks of Desire—the second volume in the Mechademia series, an annual forum devoted to critical and creative work on Japanese anime, manga, and the fan cultures that have coalesced around them—explores the varieties of desire that structure and influence much of contemporary anime and manga in manifestations that range from the explicitly sexual to more sublimated text and imagery. Collecting original essays by scholars, artists, and fans, Networks of Desire considers key issues at play in a Japanese society increasingly uncertain of its place in a globalized world: from idealized representations of same-sex desire in such shôjo manga (girls’s comics) as The Rose of Versailles, to fan fiction inspired by the gender-switching manga Ranma ½, to desire in otaku communities.

 

Deftly weaving together desire and discourse, Mechademia 2 illuminates the techno-carnal fantasies, animalistic consumption, political nostalgia, and existential hunger underlying the most popular and influential expressions of Japanese popular culture today.

Contributors: Brent Allison, U of Georgia; Meredith Suzanne Hahn Aquila; Hiroki Azuma; William L. Benzon; Christopher Bolton, Williams College; Martha Cornog; Patrick Drazen; Marc Hairston, U of Texas, Dallas; Mari Kotani; Shu Kuge, Penn State U; Margherita Long, U of California, Riverside; Daisuke Miyao; Hiromi Mizuno, U of Minnesota; Mariana Ortega; Timothy Perper; Eron Rauch; Trina Robbins; Brian Ruh, Indiana U; Deborah Shamoon, U of Notre Dame; Masami Toku, California State U, Chico; Keith Vincent, NYU.

Frenchy Lunning is professor of liberal arts at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and editor of Mechademia 1: Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga (Minnesota, 2006).




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Summary: An extraordinary anthology of original essays by scholars, artists, and fans discussing the popular culture of anime
Comment: The Mechademia series is an extraordinary anthology of original essays by scholars, artists, and fans discussing the popular culture of Japanese animation, manga, and their derivative fan-works, as gathered from an annual forum. Mechademia Volume 2: Networks of Desire especially focuses upon sexual and gender issues and subtexts present in manga and anime - although, despite the provocative cover image of a nude girl bound in ropes, most of the manga and anime examples discussed are emphatically not pornographic. Sample essays include "Shojo Manga! Girls Comics! A Mirror of Girls' Dreams", "Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction Writers: New Narrative Themes or the Same Old Story?", "The Animalization of Otaku Culture", "Between the Child and the Mecha", and much more. A handful of black-and-white animation stills and other photographs illustrate this welcome contribution to Japanese popular culture studies.

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Summary: Full Table of Contents
Comment: The full table of contents for this volume is as follows:

Introduction: Art Mecho
by Frenchy Lunning and Thomas LaMarre

*** PART I: SHOJO / GRRRL ***

Revolutionary Romance: The Rose of Versailles and the Transformation of Shojo Manga
by Deborah Shamoon

Shojo Manga! Girls' Comics! A Mirror of Girls' Dreams
by Masami Toku

Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction Writers: New Narrative Themes or the Same Old Story?
by Meredith Suzanne Hahn Aquila

Doll Beauties and Cosplay
by Mari Kotani (translated by Thomas LaMarre)

A Japanese Electra and Her Queer Progeny
by Keith Vincent

*** PART II: POWERS OF TIME ***

Thieves of Baghdad: Transnational Networks of Cinema and Anime in the 1920s
by Daisuke Miyao

When Pacifist Japan Fights: Historicizing Desires in Anime
by Hiromi Mizuno

The Quick and the Undead: Visual and Political Dynamics in Blood: The Last Vampire
by Christopher Bolton

Bridges of the Unknown: Visual Desires and Small Apocalypses
by Eron Rauch

*** PART II: ANIMALIZATION ***

Malice@Doll: Konaka, Specularization, and the Virtual Feminine
by Margherita Long

The Animalization of Otaku Culture
by Azuma Hiroki (translated by Yuriko Furuhata and Marc Steinberg)

Sex and the Single Pig: Desire and Flight in Porco Rosso
by Patrick Drazen

The Education of Desire: Futari etchi and the Globalization of Sexual Tolerance
by Timothy Perper and Martha Cornog

My Father, He Killed Me; My Mother, She Ate Me: Self, Desire, Engendering, and the Mother in Neon Genesis Evangelion
by Mariana Ortega

*** PART IV: HORIZONS ***

Fly Away Old Home: Memory and Salvation in Haibane-Renmei
by Marc Hairston

In the World That Is Infinitely Inclusive: Four Theses on Voices of a Distant Star and The Wings of Honneamise
by Shu Kuge

Between the Child and the Mecha
by Frenchy Lunning

*** REVIEW AND COMMENTARY SECTION ***

Godzilla's Children: Murakami Takes Manhattan
William L. Benzon

Anime: Comparing Macro and Micro Analyses
Brent Allison

Crazy Rabbit Man: Why I Rewrite Manga
Trina Robbins

Brain-Diving Batou
Brian Ruh

Lurkers at the Threshold: Saya and the Nature of Evil
Timothy Perper and Martha Cornog

*** TORENDO SECTION ****

UAAAAA! Trashkultur! An Interview with MAK's Johannes Wieninger
Christopher Bolton


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