Networks of desire

Record details

ISBN: 9780816652662 (Paper)
ISBN: 081665266X (Paper)
Physical Description: print
ix, 304 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"An annual forum for anime, manga, and fan arts"--p. [ii].
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Revolutionary romance: the rose of Versailles and the transformation of Shojo manga / Deborah Shamoon -- Shojo manga! Girls' comics! : a mirror of girls' dreams / Masami Toku -- Ranma 1/2 fan fiction writers : new narrative themes or the same old story? / Meredith Suzanne Hahn Aquila -- Doll beauties and cosplay / Mari Kotani ; translated by Thomas LaMarre -- A Japanese Electra and her queer progeny / Keith Vincent -- Thieves of Baghdad : transnational networks of cinema and anime in the 1920s / Dasuke Miyao -- When pacifist Japan fights : historicizing desires in anime / Hiromi Mizuno -- The quick and the undead : visual and political dynamics in Blood : the last vampire / Christopher Bolton -- Bridges of the unknown : visual desires and small apocalypses / Eron Rauch -- Malice@doll : Konaka, specularizaton, and the virtual feminine / Margherita Long -- The animalization of Otaku culture / Azuma Hiroki ; translated by Yuriko Furuhata and Marc Steinberg -- Sex and the single pig : desire and flight in Porco Rosso / Patrick Drazen -- The education of desire : Futari etchi and the globalization of sexual tolerance / 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 / Mariana Ortega -- Fly away old home : memory and salvation in Haibane-Renmei / Marc Hairston -- In the world that is infinitely inclusive : four theses on Voices of a distant star and The wings of Honneamise / Shu Kuge -- Between the child and mecha / Frenchy Lunning -- Review and commentary.
Language Note:	Texts in English, some translated from Japanese.