| Description |
1 online resource (xxxvii, 385 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cinematism and Animetism -- Animation Stand -- Compositing -- Merely Technological Behavior -- Flying Machines -- Full Animation -- Only a Girl Can Save Us Now -- Giving Up the Gun -- Relative Movement -- Structures of Depth -- The Distributive Field -- Otaku Imaging -- Multiple Frames of Reference -- Inner Natures -- Full Limited Animation -- A Face on the Train -- The Absence of Sex -- Platonic Sex -- Perversion -- The Spiral Dance of Symptom and Specter -- Emergent Positions -- Anime Eyes Manga -- Conclusion : Patterns of Serialization |
| Summary |
Despite the longevity of animation and its significance within the history of cinema, film theorists have focused on live-action motion pictures and largely ignored hand-drawn and computer-generated movies. Thomas Lamarre contends that animation demands sustained engagement, and in The Anime Machine he lays the foundation for a new critical theory for reading Japanese animation, showing how anime fundamentally differs from other visual media |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Animated films -- Japan -- History and criticism
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Motion pictures -- Japan -- History
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Motion pictures -- History.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Animation.
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Animated films
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Motion pictures
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Japan
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780816670604 |
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0816670609 |
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