Anime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle, Updated Edition

This new edition of the groundbreaking popular book is a must-have for both seasoned and new fans of anime. Japanese animation is more popular than ever following the 2002 Academy Award given to Hayao Miyazaki's "Spirited Away." It confirmed that anime is more than just children's cartoons, often portraying important social and cultural themes. With new chapters on "Spirited Aw...

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This new edition of the groundbreaking popular book is a must-have for both seasoned and new fans of anime. Japanese animation is more popular than ever following the 2002 Academy Award given to Hayao Miyazaki's "Spirited Away." It confirmed that anime is more than just children's cartoons, often portraying important social and cultural themes. With new chapters on "Spirited Away "and other recent releases, including "Howl's Moving Castle"--Miyazaki's latest hit film, already breaking records in Japan--this edition will be the authoritative source on anime for an exploding market of viewers who want to know more.

Acknowledgments ....................... ...... . .. . .. . vii
Foreword to the Revised Edition .......................... ix
PART ONE INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE
Why Anime? ... . .... . .................................3
CHAPTER TWO
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Acknowledgments ....................... ...... . .. . .. . vii
Foreword to the Revised Edition .......................... ix
PART ONE INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE
Why Anime? ... . .... . .................................3
CHAPTER TWO
Anime and LocaVGlobal Identity .......................... 15
PART TWO BODY, METAMORPHOSIS, IDENTITY
CHAPTER THREE
Akira and Ranma 112: The Monstrous Adolescent ............. 39
CHAPTER fOUR
Controlling Bodies: The Body in Pornographic Anime .........63
CHAPTER FIVE
Ghosts and Machines: The Technological Body............ . ..85
CHAPTER SIX
Doll Parts: Technology and the Body in Ghost in the Shell . . .. 103
CHAPTER SEVEN
Stray: Gender Panics, Masculine Crises, and Fantasy in Japanese Animation ... . ..................... . .........117
PART THREE MAGICAL GIRLS AND FANTASY WORLDS
CHAPTER EIGHT
The Enchantment of Estrangement: The Shojo in the World of Miyazaki Hayao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 1
CHAPTER NINE
Now You See Her, Now You Don't: The Disappearing Shojo . . . 169
CHAPTER TEN
Carnival and Conservatism in Romantic Comedy . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 5
PART FOUR REMAKING MASTER NARRATIVES: ANIME CONFRONTS HISTORY
CHAPTER ELEVEN
No More Words: Barefoot Gen, Grave of the Fireflies, and "Victim's History" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
CHAPTER TWELVE
Princess Mononoke: Fantasy, the Feminine, and the Myth of "Progress" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Waiting for the End of the World: Apocalyptic Identity . . . . . . . 249
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Elegies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 5
CONCLUSION
A Fragmented Mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 1
Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 5
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Index............................. ................. .343
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