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The Cinema of Mamoru Oshii

Author : Dani Cavallaro
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476604886
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Cinema of Mamoru Oshii written by Dani Cavallaro and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s animation is much more than kids’ stuff. Increasingly complex subject matter has produced a corresponding increase in artistic interest, and forms once specific to certain cultures have crossed borders to enjoy international popularity. Japanese animation has been particularly successful in the United States, and among the most celebrated Japanese animation artists is director Mamoru Oshii. This book is an analytical survey of Oshii’s cinematic works from the early years of his career through his 21st-century productions, including Beautiful Dreamer and the acclaimed Ghost in the Shell. The author examines these and other Oshii productions in relation to the Carnivalesque movement, technopolitics and the director’s post-robotic vision. Oshii’s films are particularly significant in their defiance of the premises of Western animation and their presentation of a highly personal commentary on both individual and collective identities in the 20th and 21st centuries. Special emphasis is placed on Oshii’s revolutionary film techniques, including the stylistically and thematically diverse features of productions ranging from animation to live action to Original Video Animation (OVA), a format Oshii invented. A complete filmography is included.

Stray Dog of Anime

Author : B. Ruh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403982791
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Stray Dog of Anime written by B. Ruh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-07-16 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon its U.S. release in the mid 1990s Ghost in the Shell , directed by Mamoru Oshii, quickly became one of the most popular Japanese animated films, or anime, in the country. Despite these accolades, Oshii is known as a contrarian within anime, a self-proclaimed 'stray dog', avoiding the limelight in favour of his own personal cinematic vision. He cannot be pigeon-holed, working in both live-action film and animation, directing everything from absurdist comedy to thrillers to meditations on the nature of reality. Stray Dog of Anime is the first book to take an in-depth look at Oshii's major films, form his early days working on Urusei Yatsura to Avalon , his most recent feature. Ruh details Oshii's evolution as a director, paying special attention to his personal style and symbolism, resulting in a unique guide that will appeal to anime fans and cinestes of all kinds.

Stray Dog of Anime

Author : B. Ruh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137437901
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Stray Dog of Anime written by B. Ruh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon its US release in the mid 1990s, Ghost in the Shell , directed by Mamoru Oshii, quickly became one of the most popular Japanese animated films in the country. Despite this, Oshii is known as a maverick within anime: a self-proclaimed 'stray dog'. This is the first book to take an in-depth look at his major films, from Urusei Yatsura to Avalon .

Stray Dog of Anime

Author : Brian Ruh
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781403963345
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (633 download)

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Download or read book Stray Dog of Anime written by Brian Ruh and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-06-12 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

The Crisis of Identity in Contemporary Japanese Film

Author : Timothy Iles
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047424697
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book The Crisis of Identity in Contemporary Japanese Film written by Timothy Iles and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-10-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise, textually analytical study of the ways in which works of contemporary Japanese cinema have explored and reflected a 'crisis' in Japan's changing conceptions of individuality and identity approaching the central issue from a range of aspects.

Film After Film

Author : J. Hoberman
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781681430
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book Film After Film written by J. Hoberman and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world’s most erudite and entertaining film critics on the state of cinema in the post-digital—and post-9/11—age. This witty and allusive book, in the style of classic film theorists/critics like André Bazin and Siegfried Kracauer, includes considerations of global cinema’s most important figures and films, from Lars von Trier and Zia Jiangke to WALL-E, Avatar and Inception.

Simultaneous Worlds

Author : Jennifer L. Feeley
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452944253
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Simultaneous Worlds written by Jennifer L. Feeley and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1927 release of Fritz Lang’s pioneer film Metropolis, science fiction cinema has largely been regarded a Western genre. In Simultaneous Worlds, Jennifer L. Feeley and Sarah Ann Wells showcase authors who challenge this notion by focusing on cinemas and cultures, from Cuba to North Korea, not traditionally associated with science fiction. This collection introduces films about a metal-eating monster who helps peasants overthrow an exploitative court, an inflatable sex doll who comes to life, a desert planet where matchsticks are more valuable than money, and more. Simultaneous Worlds is the first volume to bring a transnational, interdisciplinary lens to science fiction cinema. Encountering some of the best emerging and established voices in the field, readers will become immersed in discussions of well-known works such as the Ghost in the Shell franchise and Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 alongside lesser-known but equally fascinating works by African, Asian, European, and South American filmmakers. Divided into five parts that cover theoretical concerns such as new media economies, translation, the Global South, cyborgs, and socialist and postsocialist cinema, these essays trace cinema’s role in imagining global communities and power struggles. Considering both individual films and the broader networks of production, distribution, and exhibition, Simultaneous Worlds illustrates how film industries across the globe take part in visualizing the perils of globalization and technological modernity. Ultimately, this book opens new ways of thinking about world cinema and our understanding of the world at large.

Humanity in Anime

Author : Sean Hartlieb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781530069231
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (692 download)

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Download or read book Humanity in Anime written by Sean Hartlieb and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mamoru Oshii is universally celebrated as one of the greatest directors of anime, or Japanese animation. Famous for his unique style in creating visionary worlds with a philosophical bent, Oshii has truly changed the way audiences look at animation and the cinematic medium. Humanity in Anime examines Oshii's entire body of work, from his earliest features as the Urusei Yatsura films to his more recent fantasy film Garm Wars: The Last Druid. Providing interpretations of his films, Humanity in Anime explores new understandings of the legendary filmmaker.

Film: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Michael Wood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192803530
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Film: A Very Short Introduction written by Michael Wood and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a wealth of insight into the paradoxical nature of film, considering its role and impact on society in the 20th century as well as its future in the digital age. Original.

Japanese Cinema in the Digital Age

Author : Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 082486588X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Japanese Cinema in the Digital Age written by Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital technology has transformed cinema’s production, distribution, and consumption patterns and pushed contemporary cinema toward increasingly global markets. In the case of Japanese cinema, a once moribund industry has been revitalized as regional genres such as anime and Japanese horror now challenge Hollywood’s preeminence in global cinema. In her rigorous investigations of J-horror, personal documentary, anime, and ethnic cinema, Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano deliberates on the role of the transnational in bringing to the mainstream what were formerly marginal B-movie genres. She argues persuasively that convergence culture, which these films represent, constitutes Japan’s response to the variegated flows of global economics and culture. With its timely analysis of new modes of production emerging from the struggles of Japanese filmmakers and animators to finance and market their work in a post-studio era, this book holds critical implications for the future of other national cinemas fighting to remain viable in a global marketplace. As academics in film and media studies prepare a wholesale shift toward a transnational perspective of film, Wada-Marciano cautions against jettisoning the entire national cinema paradigm. Discussing the technological advances and the new cinematic flows of consumption, she demonstrates that while contemporary Japanese film, on the one hand, expresses the transnational as an object of desire (i.e., a form of total cosmopolitanism), on the other hand, that desire is indeed inseparable from Japan’s national identity. Drawing on a substantial number of interviews with auteur directors such as Kore’eda Hirokazu, Kurosawa Kiyoshi, and Kawase Naomi, and incisive analysis of select film texts, this compelling, original work challenges the presumption that Hollywood is the only authentically “global” cinema.

Anime Aesthetics

Author : Alistair D. Swale
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113746335X
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Anime Aesthetics written by Alistair D. Swale and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-10 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japanese animation has been given fulsome academic commentary in recent years. However, there is arguably a need for a more philosophically consistent and theoretically integrated engagement. While this book covers the key thinkers of contemporary aesthetic theory, it aims to reground reflection on anime within the aesthetics of R.G. Collingwood.

Ghost in the Shell

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Publisher : Kodansha America LLC
ISBN 13 : 1682334503
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Ghost in the Shell written by and published by Kodansha America LLC. This book was released on 1995 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Red Alert

Author : Ewa Mazierska
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814340110
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Red Alert written by Ewa Mazierska and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the intersections of science fiction cinema and Marxism.

Art of Satoshi Kon

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Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 1616557419
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Art of Satoshi Kon written by and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Director Satoshi Kon blazed a brilliant animation career before his tragic death in 2010 at age 46. Now Dark Horse is privileged to remember him and his works through The Art of Satoshi Kon, a beautiful book of Kon’s illustrations for his movies Perfect Blue, Tokyo Godfathers, Milennium Actress, Paprika and his televison series Paranoia Agent, plus his unfinished The Dreaming Machine, his manga, commercial art, and several little-known and incomplete projects by the creator! Includes a special message from Academy Award nominated director Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler, Black Swan, Noah)

Anime Architecture

Author : Stefan Riekele
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0500294526
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Anime Architecture written by Stefan Riekele and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unrivaled visual guide to the cityscapes and buildings of the most celebrated and influential anime movies. Anime has been influencing cinema, literature, comic books, and video games around the world for decades. Part of what makes anime so popular are the memorable and breathtakingly detailed worlds designed by the creators, from futuristic cities of steel to romantic rural locales. Anime Architecture presents the fantastic environments created by the most important and revered directors and illustrators of Japanese animated films, such as Hideaki Anno, Koji Morimoto, and Mamoru Oshii. Unprecedented access to vast studio archives of original background paintings, storyboards, drafts, and film excerpts offers readers a privileged view into the earliest stages of conception, development, and finished versions of iconic scenes from critically acclaimed movies such as Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Metropolis, and more. Revealing the secret creative processes of these major anime studios, Anime Architecture is perfect for anyone touched by the beauty and imagination of classic anime, offering inspiration for artists, illustrators, architects, designers, video game makers, and dreamers.

Tokyo Cyberpunk

Author : Steven T. Brown
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230110061
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Tokyo Cyberpunk written by Steven T. Brown and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging some of the most canonical and thought-provoking anime, manga, and science fiction films, Tokyo Cyberpunk offers insightful analysis of Japanese visual culture. Steven T. Brown draws new conclusions about the cultural flow of art, as well as important technological issues of the day.

Interpreting Anime

Author : Christopher Bolton
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452956847
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Interpreting Anime written by Christopher Bolton and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For students, fans, and scholars alike, this wide-ranging primer on anime employs a panoply of critical approaches Well-known through hit movies like Spirited Away, Akira, and Ghost in the Shell, anime has a long history spanning a wide range of directors, genres, and styles. Christopher Bolton’s Interpreting Anime is a thoughtful, carefully organized introduction to Japanese animation for anyone eager to see why this genre has remained a vital, adaptable art form for decades. Interpreting Anime is easily accessible and structured around individual films and a broad array of critical approaches. Each chapter centers on a different feature-length anime film, juxtaposing it with a particular medium—like literary fiction, classical Japanese theater, and contemporary stage drama—to reveal what is unique about anime’s way of representing the world. This analysis is abetted by a suite of questions provoked by each film, along with Bolton’s incisive responses. Throughout, Interpreting Anime applies multiple frames, such as queer theory, psychoanalysis, and theories of postmodernism, giving readers a thorough understanding of both the cultural underpinnings and critical significance of each film. What emerges from the sweep of Interpreting Anime is Bolton’s original, articulate case for what makes anime unique as a medium: how it at once engages profound social and political realities while also drawing attention to the very challenges of representing reality in animation’s imaginative and compelling visual forms.