Japanese Animation: East Asian Perspectives

Synopsis

Japanese Animation: East Asian Perspectives Makes Available For The First Time To English Readership A Selection Of Viewpoints From Media Practitioners, Designers, Educators, And Scholars Working In The East Asian Pacific. This Collection Not Only Engages A Multidisciplinary Approach In Understanding The Subject Of Japanese Animation But Also Shows Ways To Research, Teach, And More Fully Explore This Multidimensional World. Presented In Six Sections, The Translated Essays Cross-reference Each Other. The Collection Adopts A Wide Range Of Critical, Historical, Practical, And Experimental Approaches. This Variety Provides A Creative And Fascinating Edge For Both Specialist And Nonspecialist Readers. Contributors' Works Share A Common Relevance, Interest, And Involvement Despite Their Regional Considerations And The Different Modes Of Analysis Demonstrated. They Form A Composite Of Teaching And Research Ideas On Japanese Animation-- Animation Studies And Animation History In Japan. A Bipolar Approach To Understanding The History Of Japanese Animation / Nobuyuki Tsugata ; Reflections On The Wan Brothers' Letter To Japan: The Making Of Princess Iron Fan / Tze-yue G. Hu ; On The Establishment And The History Of The Japan Society For Animation Studies / Masashi Koide, Translated By Joon Yang Kim ; More On The History Of The Japan Society For Animation Studies : Historic Essentials Of Animation Studies / Hiroshi Ikeda, Translated By Masao Yokota And Tze-yue G. Hu -- Pioneers Of Japanese Animation. Chiyogami, Cartoon, Silhouette: The Transitions Of Ōfuji Noburō / Akiko Sano ; The Japanese Walt Disney : Masaoka Kenzo / Yasushi Watanabe, Translated By Sheuo Hui Gan ; Animating For Whom In The Aftermath Of A World War / Tze-yue G. Hu --^ Popular Culture, East-west Expressions, And Tezuka Osamu. Tezuka And Takarazuka: Intertwined Roots Of Japanese Popular Culture / Makiko Yamanashi ; Growing Up With Astro Boy And Mazinger Z : Industrialization, High-tech World, And Japanese Animation In The Art And Culture Of South Korea / Dong-yeon Koh ; From Haiku And Handscroll To Tezuka: Refocusing Space And Camera In The Narrative Of Animation / Kenny K.n. Chow -- Female Characters And Transnational Identities. Grotesque Cuteness Of Shōjo: Representations Of Goth-loli In Japanese Contemporary Tv Anime / Akiko Sugawa-shimada ; Animated Interracial Romantic Fantasies: Japanese Male And Non-japanese Female Characters / Joon Yang Kim --^ Artistic Animation And Expression In Japan. 3-d Computer Graphics : Creating And Teaching Professional Animated Techniques In Innocence And Doraemon / Ikif (tokumitsu Kifune And Sonoko Ishida), Translated By Joon Yang Kim ; Animation And Psychology : The Midlife Crisis Of Kawamoto Kihachiro / Masao Yokota -- Japan's First Commercial Animation Studio After The Second World War : Toei. The Background Of The Making Of Flying Phantom Ship / Hiroshi Ikeda, Translated By Masao Yokota And Tze-yue G. Hu. Edited By Masao Yokota And Tze-yue G. Hu. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.