Author: Toni Johnson-Woods
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826429386
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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A collection of essays by an international cast of scholars, experts, and fans, providing a definitive, one-stop Manga resource.
Author: Alejandro Melchor
Publisher: Green Ronin Publishing
ISBN: 9781934547182
Category : Fantasy games
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Super Mecha Roleplay Powers Go! Japanese manga and anime have become hugely popular in the English-speaking world and now they are coming to the Mutants & Masterminds roleplaying game. This sourcebook takes Mutants & Masterminds from its Silver Age roots into a whole new style of comics. Inside you'll find all-new character archetypes, rules for mecha design and creation, campaign advice, and exciting worlds with adventures galore!
Author: Mark Berninger
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 078645587X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 309
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These essays from various critical disciplines examine how comic books and graphic narratives move between various media, while merging youth and adult cultures and popular and high art. The articles feature international perspectives on comics and graphic novels published in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Portugal, Germany, Turkey, India, and Japan. Topics range from film adaptation, to journalism in comics, to the current manga boom.
Author: Marc Steinberg
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 081667549X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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Untangles the web of commodity, capitalism, and art that is anime
Author: Tze-Yue G. Hu
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9622090982
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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"Frames ofAnime provides a wonderfully concise and insightful historical overview of Japanese animation; more importantly, Tze-yue G. Hu also gives the reader a much-needed frame of reference--- cultural and historical --- for understanding its development." - Harvey Deneroff, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, Georgia "This is a valuable study that transcends most of its predecessors by situating Japanese anime in its cultural context and providing detailed insight into the lives and works of some of Japan's most prominent animators and their struggles to establish it as a legitimate form of cinema and television media. Its authorship by an Asian scholar also conversant with Chinese and Southeast Asian cinema and comic book culture gives it a unique comparative character."-John Clammer, United Nations University Japanese anime has long fascinated the world, and its mythical heroes and dazzling colors increasingly influence popular culture genres in the West. Tze-yue G. Hu analyzes the "language-medium" of this remarkable expressive platform and its many socio-cultural dimensions from a distinctly Asian frame of reference, tracing its layers of concentric radiation from Japan throughout Asia. Her work, rooted in archival investigations, interviews with animators and producers in Japan as well as other Asian animation studios, and interdisciplinary research in linguistics and performance theory, shows how dialectical aspects of anime are linked to Japan's unique experience of modernity and its cultural associations in Asia, including its reliance on low-wage outsourcing. Her study also provides English readers with insights on numerous Japanese secondary sources, as well as a number of original illustrations offered by animators and producers she interviewed.
Author: Gloria Gaynor
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466865954
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 253
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I Will Survive is the story of Gloria Gaynor, America's "Queen of Disco." It is the story of riches and fame, despair, and finally salvation. Her meteoric rise to stardom in the mid-1970s was nothing short of phenomenal, and hits poured forth that pushed her to the top of the charts, including "Honey Bee," "I Got You Under My Skin," "Never Can Say Goodbye," and the song that has immortalized her, "I Will Survive," which became a #1 international gold seller. With that song, Gloria heralded the international rise of disco that became synonymous with a way of life in the fast lane - the sweaty bodies at Studio 54, the lines of cocaine, the indescribable feeling that you could always be at the top of your game and never come down. But down she came after her early stardom, and problems followed in the wake, including the death of her mother, whose love had anchored the young singer, as well as constant battles with weight, drugs, and alcohol. While her fans always imagined her to be rich, her personal finances collapsed due to poor management; and while many envied her, she felt completely empty inside. In the early 1980s, sustained by her marriage to music publisher Linwood Simon, Gloria took three years off and reflected upon her life. She visited churches and revisited her mother's old Bible. Discovering the world of gospel, she made a commitment to Christ that sustains her to this day.
Author: Joanna Baillie
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Author: Tamaki Saitō
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816654506
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 243
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From Nausicaä to Sailor Moon, understanding girl heroines of manga and anime within otaku culture.
Author: Jacob Polley
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 1760550566
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Jackself is the fourth collection from one of Britain's finest poets, and sees Jacob Polley at the height of his powers. In one of the most original books of poetry to appear in the last decade, Jackself spins a kind of 'fictionalized autobiography' through nursery rhymes, riddles and cautionary tales, and through the many 'Jacks' of our folktale, legend, phrase and fable - everyman Jacks and no one Jacks, Jackdaw, Jack-O-Lantern, Jack Sprat, Cheapjack and Jack Frost. At once playful and terrifying, lyric and narratively compelling, Jackself is an unforgettable exploration of an innocence and childhood lost in the darker corners of Reiver country and of English folklore, and once more shows Polley as one of the most remarkable imaginations at work in poetry today.
