Fanthropologies
By: Frenchy Lunning, editor
Series: Mechademia -- 5; Mechademia -- 5.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press; University Of Minnesota Press; Univ Of Minnesota Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
ISBN-13: 9780816673872
Subjects: Animated films; History; Fans (Persons); Popular culture; History and criticism; Animated television programs; Comic books, strips
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The art of cute little things : Nara Yoshitomo's parapolitics  -- Marilyn Ivy; title: Transforming U.S. anime in the 1980s  -- Brian Ruh; title: Speciesism, part II : Tezuka Osamu and the multispecies ideal  -- Thomas Lamarre; title: Undoing inter-national fandom in the age of brand nationalism  -- Koichi Iwabuchi; title: World and variation : the reproduction and consumption of narrative  -- Ōtsuka Eiji; title: Frenchness and transformation in Japanese subculture, 1972-2004  -- Anne McKnight; title: Monstrous media and delusional consumption in Kon Satoshi's Paranoia agent  -- Gerald Figal; title: Lucid dreams, false awakenings : figures of the fan in Kon Satoshi  -- Kerin Ogg; title: Cosplay photography sampler  -- Eron Rauch and Christopher Bolton; title: Dark energy : what fansubs reveal about the copyright wars  -- Ian Condry; title: Akihabara : conditioning a public "otaku" image  -- Patrick W. Galbraith; title: Comic market : how the world's biggest amateur comic fair shaped Japanese Dōjinshi culture  -- Fan-Yi Lam; title: Suffering forces us to think beyond the right--left barrier  -- Amamiya Karin; title: Fans behaving badly : anime metafandom, brutal criticism, and the intellectual fan  -- Kathryn Dunlap and Carissa Wolf; title: Anatomy of permutational desire : perversion in Hans Bellmer and Oshii Mamoru  -- Livia Monnet; title: A cocoon with a view : hikikomori, otaku, and Welcome to the NHK  -- Marc Hairston; title: Reorganizations of gender and nationalism : gender bashing and loliconized Japanese society  -- Naitō Chizuko; title: Aeryn's dolls  -- Jin C. Tomshine; title: Review and commentary.