Posted by: Ariane Beldi on: July 25, 2008
Here is a brand new collective book looking at the cross-hybridization between modern Western and Japanese cultures. Published by the University of Minesota Press.
Surveillance, sexuality, war, and censorship in Japanese detective fiction.
The quintessential international genre, detective fiction often works under the guise of popular entertainment to expose its extensive readership to complex moral questions [...]
Posted by: Ariane Beldi on: July 4, 2008
And one more! Yes, one more book on animation and comics, including animes and mangas to add to your piling up reading list. These last two or three years, we have witnessed a flurry of works from a variety of disciplines on visual popular culture, especially on mangas and animes. This was somewhat long overdue [...]