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Titre(s) : Robot ghosts and wired dreams [Texte imprimé] : Japanese science fiction from origins to anime / Christopher Bolton, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., and Takayuki Tatsumi, editors

Publication : Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, copyright 2007

Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXII-269 p.) : illustrations ; 26 cm

Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Since the end of the Second World War--and particularly over the past decade--Japanese science fiction has strongly influenced global popular culture. Unlike American and British science fiction, its most popular examples have been visual--from Gojira (Godzilla) and Astro Boy in the 1950s and 1960s to the anime masterpieces Akira and Ghost in the Shell of the 1980s and 1990s--while little attention has been paid to a vibrant tradition of prose science fiction in Japan. Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams remedies this neglect with a rich exploration of the genre that connects prose science fiction to contemporary anime. Bringing together Western scholars and leading Japanese critics, this groundbreaking work traces the beginnings, evolution, and future direction of science fiction in Japan, its major schools and authors, cultural origins and relationship to its Western counterparts, the role of the genre in the formation of Japan's national and political identity, and its unique fan culture. Covering a remarkable range of texts--from the 1930s fantastic detective fiction of Yumeno Kyūsaku to the cross-culturally produced and marketed film and video game franchise Final Fantasy--this book firmly establishes Japanese science fiction as a vital and exciting genre."--Publisher's description

Autre(s) auteur(s) : Bolton, Christopher. Éditeur scientifique  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur
Csicsery-Ronay, Istvan (19..-.... ; professeur d'anglais). Éditeur scientifique  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur
Tatsumi, Takayuki (1955-....). Éditeur scientifique  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Sujet(s) : Science-fiction japonaise  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Science-fiction japonaise -- Influence  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780816649730. - ISBN 0816649731. - ISBN 9780816649747. - ISBN 081664974X

Identifiant de la notice  : ark:/12148/cb46604933r

Notice n° :  FRBNF46604933 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)

Table des matières : Horror and machines in prewar Japan : the mechanical uncanny in Yumeno Kyūsaku's Dogura magura / Miri Nakamura ; Has the empire sunk yet? : the Pacific in Japanese science fiction / Thomas Schnellbächer ; Alien spaces and alien bodies in Japanese women's science fiction / Kotani Mari ; SF as Hamlet : science fiction and philosophy / Azuma Hiroki ; Tsutsui Yasutaka and the multimedia performance of authorship / William O. Gardner ; When the machines stop : fantasy, reality, and terminal identity in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Serial Experiments: Lain / Susan J. Napier ; The mecha's blind spot : Patlabor 2 and the phenomenology of anime / Christopher Bolton ; Words of alienation, words of flight : loanwords in science fiction anime / Naoki Chiba and Hiroko Chiba ; Sex and the single cyborg : Japanese popular culture experiments in subjectivity / Sharalyn Orbaugh ; Invasion of the woman snatchers : the problem of a-life and the uncanny in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within / Livia Monnet ; Otaku sexuality / Saitō Tamaki.