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Author Papp, Zilia

Title Anime and its roots in early Japanese monster art / by Zilia Papp
Published Folkestone : Global Oriental, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 180 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Contents Introduction -- Yōkai art : from prehistory to modernity. What are yōkai? ; Type of yōkai ; Yōkai of the mountain ; Yōkai of the water ; Yōkai of the village and the home ; The art of yōkai ; Yōkai of prehistory ; Jomon art ; The one-eyed god ; The end of the Jomon Period ; Horrors of the Heian Period ; Demon parade of the Muromachi period ; Codified monsters of Edo ; Militarized monsters of Meiji ; The Meiji Restoration and yōkai ; The folk studies of Yanagita Kunio ; Yōkai go to war -- Enter the limping hero. Mizuki Shigeru, professor of yōkai ; Early years (1922-41) ; War years (1942-45) ; Postwar years (1945- ) ; Tricksters animated ; Daddy Eyeball ; Graveyard Kitaro, the pseudo folk superhero ; The limping hero ; Ratman -- Art history meets Gegegeno Kitaro. The illustrated night parade of one hundred demons, 1776 ; The illustrated one hundred demons from the present and the past, 1779 ; Supplement to the one hundred demons from the present and the past, 1781 ; The illustrated bag of one hundred demons, 1781 ; Yanagita Kunio's Yōkai meii -- Yōkai in cinema, 1968-2008. Great yōkai wars 1966-2005 ; Yōkai daisensō in manga, 1966 ; Yōkai daisensō in animation, 1968 ; Yōkai Daisensō in film., 1968 ; Yōkai daisensō in remake, 2005 ; Yōkai daisensō character design ; Yōkai daisensō demon parade ; Kitaro on film, 2007 ; Dotaro, 2007 ; Cat-eye boy, 2006 -- Monsters march on. Kitaro in the context of Superflat ; yōkai landscape
Summary Japanese anime plays a major role in modern popular visual culture and aesthetics. This study puts today's anime in historical context by tracking the visual links between Edo- and Meiji- period painters and the post-war period animation and manga series Gegegeno Kitaro by Mizuki Shigeru
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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SUBJECT Gegege no Kitarô gnd
Subject Comic books, strips, etc. -- Japan -- History and criticism
Animated films -- Japan -- History and criticism
Art, Japanese -- Influence
Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868.
Art, Japanese -- Meiji period, 1868-1912.
Monsters in art.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Manga -- Erotica.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Manga -- Fantasy.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Manga -- Gay & Lesbian.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Manga -- Historical Fiction.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Manga -- Horror.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Manga -- Media Tie-In.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Manga -- Romance.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Manga -- Science Fiction.
Animated films
Art, Japanese -- Edo period
Art, Japanese -- Influence
Art, Japanese -- Meiji period
Comic books, strips, etc.
Monsters in art
Zeichentrickfilm
Ungeheuer
Trickfilm -- Japan -- Geschichte.
Manga.
Kunst.
Film.
Japan
Japan
Japan.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004202870
9004202870
1282557890
9781282557895
9786612557897
6612557893