The anime machine
Subtitle: a media theory of animation
By: Thomas Lamarre
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press; Univ Of Minnesota Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9780816651542
Description: Working at the intersection of the philosophy of technology and the history of thought, Lamarre explores how anime and its related media entail material orientations and demonstrates concretely how the 'animetic machine' encourages a specific approach to thinking about technology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-366) and index.
Table of contents: title: Cinematism and Animetism; title: Animation Stand; title: Compositing; title: Merely Technological Behavior; title: Flying Machines; title: Full Animation; title: Only a Girl Can Save Us Now; title: Giving Up the Gun; title: Relative Movement; title: Structures of Depth; title: The Distributive Field; title: Otaku Imaging; title: Multiple Frames of Reference; title: Inner Natures; title: Full Limited Animation; title: A Face on the Train; title: The Absence of Sex; title: Platonic Sex; title: Perversion; title: The Spiral Dance of Symptom and Specter; title: Emergent Positions; title: Anime Eyes Manga; title: Conclusion : Patterns of Serialization.