Robot ghosts and wired dreams Japanese science fiction from origins to anime / Christopher Bolton, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., and Takayuki Tatsumi, editors.

Other author Bolton, Christopher.
Other author Csicsery-Ronay, Istvan, Jr.
Other author Tatsumi, Takayuki, 1955-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,
Descriptionxxii, 269 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
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Contents Horror and machines in prewar Japan : the mechanical uncanny in Yumeno Kyūsaku's Dogura magura / Miri Nakamura -- Has the empire sunk yet? : the Pacific in Japanese science fiction / Thomas Schnellbächer -- Alien spaces and alien bodies in Japanese women's science fiction / Kotani Mari -- SF as Hamlet : science fiction and philosophy / Azuma Hiroki -- Tsutsui Yasutaka and the multimedia performance of authorship / William O. Gardner -- When the machines stop : fantasy, reality, and terminal identity in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Serial Experiments: Lain / Susan J. Napier -- The mecha's blind spot : Patlabor 2 and the phenomenology of anime / Christopher Bolton -- Words of alienation, words of flight : loanwords in science fiction anime / Naoki Chiba and Hiroko Chiba -- Sex and the single cyborg : Japanese popular culture experiments in subjectivity / Sharalyn Orbaugh -- Invasion of the woman snatchers : the problem of a-life and the uncanny in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within / Livia Monnet -- Otaku sexuality / Saitō Tamaki.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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