| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 287 pages) : illustrations |
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Mechademia ; 3 |
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Mechademia ; 3.
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| Contents |
Preface : The limits of the human / Frenchy Lunning -- Introduction : The limits of "The limits of the human" / Christopher Bolton -- Contours: around the human : Refiguring the human / Mark C. Taylor -- The otherworlds of Mizuki Shigeru / Michael Dylan Foster -- Extreme makeover for a Heian-era wizard / Laura Miller -- Undressing and dressing Loli: a search for the identity of the Japanese Lolita / Theresa Winge -- Manga: Komatopia / Natusume Fusanosuke -- Companions: with the human : Speciesism, part I: Translating races into animals in wartime animation / Thomas LaMarre -- Stigmata in Tezuka Osamu's works / Yomota Inuhiko -- Disarming atom: Tezuka Osamu's manga at war and peace / Otsuka Eiji -- States of emergency: urban space and the robotic body in the Metropolis tales / Lawrence Bird -- Emotional infectivity: cyborg affect and the limits of the human / Sharalyn Orbaugh -- Manga: the signal of noise / written and adapted by Adèle-Elise Prévost, illus. by Musebasement -- Compossibles: of the human : Gundam and the future of Japanoid art / Takayuki Tatsumi, translated, with a response by Christopher Bolton -- Pop culture icons: religious inflections of the character toy in Taiwan / Teri Silvio -- Machinic desires: Hans Bellmer's Dolls and the technological uncanny in Ghost in the shell 2: innocence / Steven T. Brown -- Postscript: On "the living" / Cary Wolfe -- Review and commentary : A healing gentle apocalypse: Yokohama kaidashi kikō / Marc Hairston ; Lost in transition: train men and dolls in millennial Japan / Susan Napier ; Howl's moving castle / Antonia Levi ; Playing outside the box with Mind game / Paul Jackson ; From transnationalization to globalization: the experience of Hong Kong / Wendy Siuyi Wong ; "Always exoticize!" Cyborg identities and the challenge of the nonhuman in Full metal Apache / Joshua Paul Dale -- Postmodern in old hat: Samūrai Champloo / William L. Benzon -- Torendo : Giant robots and superheroes: manifestations of divine power, East meets West: An interview with Crispin Freeman / Frenchy Lunning |
| Summary |
"Dramatic advances in genetics, cloning, robotics, and nanotechnology have given rise to both hopes and fears about how technology might transform humanity. As the possibility of a posthuman future becomes increasingly likely, debates about how to interpret or shape this future abound. In Japan, anime and manga artists have for decades been imagining the contours of posthumanity, creating dazzling and sometimes disturbing works of art that envision a variety of human/nonhuman hybrids: biological/mechanical, human/animal, and human/monster. Anime and manga offer a constellation of posthuman prototypes whose hybrid natures require a shift in our perception of what it means to be human"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
In English, some contributions translated from Japanese |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Popular culture -- Japan.
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Graphic arts -- Japan
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Popular culture -- Japanese influences.
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Animated films -- Japan -- History and criticism
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Human beings -- Variation
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Animated films
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Graphic arts
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Popular culture
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Popular culture -- Japanese influences
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Japan
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lunning, Frenchy.
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| ISBN |
9780816669684 |
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0816669686 |
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