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Frames of anime : culture and image-building / Tze-yue G. Hu.

This text is an interdisciplinary study of the subject of anime, a popular form of Japanese animation. Using a variety of research methods and spanning a period of nine years, the volume provides an alternative account of the growth of the medium-genre.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Hu, Tze-yue G. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
Animated films > Japan > History.
Motion pictures, Japanese > Asia > History.
Culture in motion pictures.
Asia > Civilization > Japanese influences.
Animated films
Civilization > Japanese influences
Culture in motion pictures
Motion pictures, Japanese
Asia
Japan
History
Table of Contents:
  • Origins of the Japanese art of animating
  • Continuity of art forms and their visualness
  • Cultural thought, expressing the self, and image-building
  • Development of Japanese animation up to the end of the Second World War
  • Postwar Japanese animation development and Toei Animation Studio
  • Miyazaki and Takahata Anime Cinema
  • Anime in Asia: a case of cultural imperialism?

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