Tezuka's manga life
By: Frenchy Lunning, editor
Series: Mechademia -- 8; Mechademia -- 8.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780816689552
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; History and criticism; Themes, motives; Comic books, strips
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Essays in English, some translated from Japanese.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: Manga life: Tezuka  -- Thomas Lamarre; title: "Becoming-insect woman": Tezuka's feminist species  -- Mary A. Knighton; title: Diary of an insect shōjo's vagabond life  -- Tezuka Osamu ; translated by Mary A. Knighton; title: Tezuka Osamu's circle of life: vitalism, evolution, and Buddhism  -- G. Clinton Godart; title: Atom came from bugs: the precocious didacticism of Tezuka Osamu's Essays in insect idleness  -- Linda H. Chance; title: On the fabulation of a form of life in the drawn line and systems of thought  -- Verina Gfader; title: The metamorphic and microscopic in Tezuka Osamu's graphic novels  -- Christine L. Marran; title: Where is Tezuka?: a theory of manga expression  -- Natsume Fusanosuke ; translated by Matthew Young; title: Phoenix 2772: a 1980 turning point for Tezuka and anime  -- Renato Rivera Rusca -- Copying Atomu / -- Marc Steinberg; title: Tokiwasou story  -- Akatsuka Fujio ; translated by Matthew Young; title: Toward a theory of "artist manga": manga self-consciousness and the transforming figure of the artist  -- Hashimoto Yorimitsu ; translated by Baryon Tensor Posadas; title: Manga shōnen: Katō Ken'ichi and the manga boys  -- Ryan Holmberg; title: Implicating readers: Tezuka's early seinen manga  -- Fujiki Hideaki; title: Tezuka'a anime revolution in context  -- Jonathan Clements; title: Designing a world  -- Frederik L. Schodt; title: Unico  -- Anno Moyoko ; translated by Matthew Young; title: An unholy alliance of Eisenstein and Disney: the fascist origins of otaku culture  -- Ōtsuka Eiji ; translated by Thomas Lamarre; title: Osamu Moet Moso: imagining lines of eroticism in Akihabara  -- Patrick W. Galbraith; title: Tezuka, shōjo manga, and Hagio Moto  -- Hori Hikari; title: Out of death, an atomic consecration to life: Astro Boy and Hiroshima's long shadow  -- Alicia Gibson; title: Wolf head in Phoenix -- Ueno Toshiya.