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 Info | Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, |
| Description | xxii, 269 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Public Library Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2007027032 |
| ISBN | 9780816649730 (hc : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0816649731 (hc : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780816649747 (pb : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 081664974X (pb : alk. paper) |