Full Metal Apache - Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America

Informationen zum Autor Takayuki Tatsumi Klappentext Compares modern science fiction and the avant garde pop scene in America and Japan. Zusammenfassung A study of the dynamic cross-currents between the avant gardes and pop cultures of Japan and the United States! by one of Japan's leading cultural critics Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Larry McCaffery xi Acknowledgements xxiii Introduction: Anatomies of Dependence 1 Part One: Theory 1. Mikadophilia, or The Fate of Cyborgian Identity in Postmillenarian Milieu 9 2. Comparative Metafiction: Somewhere between Ideology and Rhetoric 38 Part Two: History 3. Virus as Metaphor: A Postorientalist Reading of the Future War Novels of the 1890s 63 4. Deep North Gothic: A Postoccidentalist Reading of Hearn, Yangita, and Akutagawa 71 5. Which Way to Coincidence: A Queer Reading of J. Ballard’s Crash 86 6. A Manifesto for Gynoids: A Cyborg Feminist Reading of Richard Calder 93 Part Three: Aesthetics 7. Semiotic Ghost Stories: The Japanese Reflection of Mirrorshades 105 8. Junk Art City, or How Gibson Meets Thomasson in Virtual Light 112 9. Pax Exotica: A New Exoticist Perspective on Audrey, Anna-chan, and Idoru 123 Part Four: Performance 10. Magic Realist Tokyo: Poe’s “The Man That Was Used Up” as a Subtext for Bartók-Terayama’s Magical Musical The Miraculous Mandarin 137 Part Five: Representation 11. Full Metal Apache: Shinya Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo Diptych, or The Impact of American Narrative son the Japanese Representation of Cyborgian Identity 151

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Takayuki Tatsumi, Tatsumi, Takayuki Tatsumi
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 27.06.2006
• EAN: 9780822337621
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3762-1
• Pagine: 272
• Dimensioni: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Serie: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Altre lingue / altre letterature