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With the popularity of Pokemon still far from waning, Japanese animation, known as anime to its fans, has a firm hold on American pop culture. However, anime is much more than children's cartoons. It runs the gamut from historical epics to sci-fi sexual thrillers. Often dismissed as fanciful entertainment, anime is actually quite adept at portraying important social and cultural issues such as alienation, gender inequality, and teenage angst. This book investigates the ways that anime presents these issues in an in-depth and sophisticated manner, uncovering the identity conflicts, fears over rapid technological advancement, and other key themes present in much of Japanese animation.

Anime --- Animated films --- J6848 --- Japan: Media arts and entertainment -- anime

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J6839 --- J6848 --- J1730 --- Japan: Media arts and entertainment -- cinema --- Japan: Media arts and entertainment -- anime --- Japan: Religion in general -- mythology

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Focusing on the period 1930-1960, Catherine Russell demystifies classical Japanese cinema. The book provides in-depth analysis of gender and social politics in 15 landmark films.

Film --- Japan --- Motion pictures --- History --- J6839 --- Japan: Media arts and entertainment -- cinema --- Cinéma -- Japon

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Motion pictures --- Cinéma --- J6839 --- Japan: Media arts and entertainment -- cinema --- Cinéma

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"The Japanese Cinema Book provides a new and comprehensive survey of one of the world's most fascinating and widely admired filmmaking regions. In terms of its historical coverage, broad thematic approach and the significant international range of its authors, it is the largest and most wide-ranging publication of its kind to date. Ranging from renowned directors such as Akira Kurosawa to neglected popular genres such as the film musical and encompassing topics such as ecology, spectatorship, home-movies, colonial history and relations with Hollywood and Europe, The Japanese Cinema Book presents a set of new, and often surprising, perspectives on Japanese film. With its plural range of interdisciplinary perspectives based on the expertise of established and emerging scholars and critics, The Japanese Cinema Book provides a groundbreaking picture of the different ways in which Japanese cinema may be understood as a local, regional, national, transnational and global phenomenon. The book's innovative structure combines general surveys of a particular historical topic or critical approach with various micro-level case studies. It argues there is no single fixed Japanese cinema, but instead a fluid and varied field of Japanese filmmaking cultures that continue to exist in a dynamic relationship with other cinemas, media and regions."--

Motion pictures --- History --- History. --- J6839 --- Japan: Media arts and entertainment -- cinema