Limits of the human
By: Frenchy Lunning, editor
Series: Mechademia -- 3
Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Minneapolis, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780816654826
Subjects: Animated films; Japanese influences; Graphic arts; Human beings; Popular culture; History and criticism; Variation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

In English, some contributions translated from Japanese.
Table of contents: title: Preface : The limits of the human / Frenchy Lunning; title: Introduction : The limits of "The limits of the human" / Christopher Bolton; title: Contours: around the human : Refiguring the human / Mark C. Taylor; title: The otherworlds of Mizuki Shigeru / Michael Dylan Foster; title: Extreme makeover for a Heian-era wizard / Laura Miller; title: Undressing and dressing Loli: a search for the identity of the Japanese Lolita / Theresa Winge; title: Manga: Komatopia / Natusume Fusanosuke; title: Companions: with the human : Speciesism, part I: Translating races into animals in wartime animation / Thomas LaMarre; title: Stigmata in Tezuka Osamu's works / Yomota Inuhiko; title: Disarming atom: Tezuka Osamu's manga at war and peace / Otsuka Eiji; title: States of emergency: urban space and the robotic body in the Metropolis tales / Lawrence Bird; title: Emotional infectivity: cyborg affect and the limits of the human / Sharalyn Orbaugh; title: Manga: the signal of noise / written and adapted by Adèle-Elise Prévost, illus. by Musebasement; title: ^; title: Compossibles: of the human : Gundam and the future of Japanoid art / Takayuki Tatsumi, translated, with a response by Christopher Bolton; title: Pop culture icons: religious inflections of the character toy in Taiwan / Teri Silvio; title: Machinic desires: Hans Bellmer's Dolls and the technological uncanny in Ghost in the shell 2: innocence / Steven T. Brown; title: Postscript: Cary Wolfe; title: Review and commentary : A healing gentle apocalypse: Yokohama kaidashi kikō / Marc Hairston ; Lost in transition: train men and dolls in millennial Japan / Susan Napier ; Howl's moving castle / Antonia Levi ; Playing outside the box with Mind game / Paul Jackson ; From transnationalization to globalization: the experience of Hong Kong / Wendy Siuyi Wong ; "Always exoticize!" Cyborg identities and the challenge of the nonhuman in Full metal Apache / Joshua Paul Dale; title: Postmodern in old hat: Samūrai Champloo / William L. Benzon; title: ^; title: ^^; title: Torendo : Giant robots and superheroes: manifestations of divine power, east meets west: An interview with Crispin Freeman / Frenchy Lunning.; title: ^^