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Frenchy Lunning is professor of liberal arts at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
List of contents
Contents
Introduction. Manga Life: Tezuka . . .Thomas Lamarre
Nonhuman Life
“Becoming-Insect Woman”: Tezuka’s Feminist SpeciesMary A. KnightonDiary of an Insect Shôjo’s Vagabond LifeTezuka OsamuTranslated by Mary A. KnightonTezuka Osamu’s Circle of Life: Vitalism, Evolution, and BuddhismG. Clinton GodartAtom Came from Bugs: The Precocious Didacticism of Tezuka Osamu’s Essays in Insect IdlenessLinda H. ChanceOn the Fabulation of a Form of Life in the Drawn Line and Systems of ThoughtVerina GfaderThe Metamorphic and Microscopic in Tezuka Osamu’s Graphic NovelsChristine L. Marran
Media Life
Where Is Tezuka?: A Theory of Manga ExpressionNatsume FusanosukeTranslated by Matthew YoungPhoenix 2772: A 1980 Turning Point for Tezuka and AnimeRenato Rivera RuscaCopying AtomuMarc SteinbergTokiwasou StoryAkatsuka FujioTranslated by Matthew Young
A Life in Manga
Toward a Theory of “Artist-Manga”: Manga Self-Consciousness and the Transforming Figure of the ArtistYorimitsu HashimotoTranslated by Baryon Tensor PosadasManga Shônen: Katô Ken’ichi and the Manga BoysRyan HolmbergImplicating Readers: Tezuka’s Early Seinen MangaHideaki FujikiTezuka’s Anime Revolution in ContextJonathan ClementsDesigning a WorldFrederik L. SchodtUnicoAnno MoyokoTranslated by Matthew Young
Everyday Life
An Unholy Alliance of Eisenstein and Disney: The Fascist Origins of Otaku CultureÔtsuka EijiTranslated by Thomas LamarreOsamu Moet Moso: Imagining Lines of Eroticism in AkihabaraPatrick W. GalbraithTezuka, Shôjo Manga, and Hagio MotoHikari HoriOut of Death, an Atomic Consecration to Life: Astro Boy and Hiroshima’s Long ShadowAlicia GibsonWolf Head in PhoenixToshiya Ueno
ContributorsCall for Papers
About the author
Frenchy Lunning is professor of liberal arts at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
Summary
Contributors to volume eight of Mechademia analyze Tezuka Osamu and his complicated approaches toward life and nonlife, as well as his effect on other manga artists. Using essays and reprints of Japanese manga on Tezuka, this volume questions his influence and attitudes toward the nonhuman, the sexual politics of manga bodies, and the origins of the moe culture, among others.
