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Christopher Bolton is professor of comparative and Japanese literature at Williams College. He is author of Sublime Voices: The Fictional Science and Scientific Fiction of Abe Kobo, coeditor of Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime (Minnesota, 2007), and a founding member of the Mechademia editorial board.
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Contents
A Note on the Text
Introduction. Read or Die: Reading Anime
1. From Origin to Oblivion: Akira as Anime and Manga
2. The Mecha’s Blind Spot: Cinematic and Electronic in Patlabor 2
3. Puppet Voices, Cyborg Souls: Ghost in the Shell and Classical Japanese Theater
4. The Forgetful Phallus and the Otaku’s Third Eye: 3x3 Eyes and Anime’s Audience
5. Anime in Drag: Stage Performance and Staged Performance in Millennium Actress
6. The Quick and the Undead: Blood: The Last Vampire and Television Anime
7. It’s Art, but Is It Anime? Howl's Moving Castle and the Novel
Conclusion: Summer Wars
Chronology
Acknowledgments
Notes
Moving Image Sources
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Christopher Bolton is professor of comparative and Japanese literature at Williams College. He is author of Sublime Voices: The Fictional Science and Scientific Fiction of Abe K¿b¿, coeditor of Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime (Minnesota, 2007), and a founding member of the Mechademia editorial board.
