http://books.google.com/books?id=SUFB8c4h5-oC&
"Despite the longevity of animation and its significance within the history of cinema, film theorists have focused on live-action motion pictures and largely ignored hand-drawn and computer-generated movies. Thomas Lamarre contends that the history, techniques, and complex visual language of animation, particularly Japanese animation, demands serious and sustained engagement, and in The Anime Machine he lays the foundation for a new critical theory for reading Japanese animation, showing how anime fundamentally differs from other visual media."
You can find this book 'around'. I first noticed it via its discussion of Japan's 'giving up the gun' (see Noel Perrin's eponymous book). Seems pretty interesting overall, but I'm unhappy with the focus mostly on Hayao Miyazaki et al., and Continental philosophers such as Heidegger.
And in case you missed past references: http://books.google.com/books?id=iEeHTogL6uUC -- This is a great book on manga/literacy.
"Despite the longevity of animation and its significance within the history of cinema, film theorists have focused on live-action motion pictures and largely ignored hand-drawn and computer-generated movies. Thomas Lamarre contends that the history, techniques, and complex visual language of animation, particularly Japanese animation, demands serious and sustained engagement, and in The Anime Machine he lays the foundation for a new critical theory for reading Japanese animation, showing how anime fundamentally differs from other visual media."
You can find this book 'around'. I first noticed it via its discussion of Japan's 'giving up the gun' (see Noel Perrin's eponymous book). Seems pretty interesting overall, but I'm unhappy with the focus mostly on Hayao Miyazaki et al., and Continental philosophers such as Heidegger.
And in case you missed past references: http://books.google.com/books?id=iEeHTogL6uUC -- This is a great book on manga/literacy.
Edited: 2010-10-28, 4:27 pm