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Summary
Author Biography
Table of Contents
Illustrations | p. xi |
Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
Introduction to a Semiotic Revolution: It May Not Be Kansas Anymore, but It Is the Kansai | p. xv |
Art in Contexts | |
Chikae Ide, the Queen of Japanese Ladies' Comics: Her Life and Manga | p. 3 |
Introduction | p. 3 |
Her Early Days | p. 6 |
Ide's Debut in Girls' Comics | p. 7 |
Ide's Family Life | p. 10 |
Ladies' Comics | p. 11 |
Conclusion | p. 17 |
Films on Paper: Cinematic Narrative in Gekiga | p. 21 |
Looking Away: The Pillow Shot in Cinema | p. 22 |
Looking Around: The Aspect-to-Aspect Transition | p. 24 |
Cinematic Narrative in Manga | p. 25 |
A Brief History of Gekiga | p. 26 |
The Aspect-to-Aspect Transition in Gekiga | p. 28 |
Films on Paper | p. 33 |
Dr. Tezuka's Ontology Laboratory and the Discovery of Japan | p. 37 |
Stories as Equipment for Living | p. 38 |
Geopolitics: What Is Japan? | p. 39 |
The Ontology Lab | p. 40 |
Primordial Scenes | p. 41 |
Parade of the Creatures | p. 43 |
Varieties of the Human | p. 44 |
Radiation and Artifice in the Building of Worlds | p. 46 |
At the Core: Grief and Loss | p. 47 |
Things to Come: Astro Boy and Beyond | p. 49 |
Heirs and GracesùMoribito: Guardian of the Spirit in the Realm of Japanese Fantasy | p. 53 |
Fantastic Frontiers | p. 55 |
Beyond the Horizon | p. 58 |
Folkloric Fantasy | p. 61 |
Fanships and Art | |
Cosplay, Drag, and the Performance of Abjection | p. 71 |
Cos | |
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