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Selected Bibliography: Manga and Anime
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I. General Background
Buruma, Ian. Behind the Mask: On Sexual Demons, Sacred Mothers,
Transvestites, Gangsters, Drifters, and other Japanese Cultural
Heroes. New York: Pantheon, 1984.
Popular Culture in Japan. Guide to resources compiled
by the Duke University Library.
http://www.lib.duke.edu/ias/eac/popculture/guide.htm
Harraway, Donna. "A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology,
and Feminism in the 1980s." Coming to Terms: Feminism,
Theory, Politics. New York: Routledge, 1989.
Robertson, Gennifer. Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular
Culture in Modern Japan. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1998.
II. Manga
The Albatross. Albatross Productions. 16
Jan 2000
http://albatross1.com/
Allison, Anne. Permitted and Prohibited Desire: Mothers, Comics,
and Censorship in Japan. University of California Press, 2000.
Buckley, Sandra. "Penguin in
Bondage: A Graphic Tale of Japanese Comic Books." The
Visual Culture Reader. Nicholas Mirzoeff, ed. New York: Routledge,
1998.
Ex: The Online World of Anime and Manga.
Ex Magazine. 15 January 2000
http://www.ex.org
Grigsby, Mary. "Sailormoon: Manga
(comics) and anime (cartoon) superheroine meets Barbie: Global
entertainment commodity comes to the United States" "
Journal of Popular Culture 32.1 pp. 59-81.
Josei Ni: A Resource and Guide To Homosexuality,
Bisexuality, and Transgenderism in Anime. Personal Homepage. 15
January 2000
http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/university/5/josei_ni/index.htm
Kinsella, Sharon. Adult manga: Culture
and Power in Contemporary Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii
Press, 2000 (forthcoming).
-------. "Change in the social status,
form, and content of adult manga, 1986-1996. Japan Forum
8.1 (1996) 103-112.
-------. "Japanese Subculture in the
1990s: Otaku and the Amateur Manga Movement. Journal of Japanese
Studies. 24.2 (1998). 289-316.

Matui, Midori. "Little girls were little boys: displaced
feminity in the representation of homosexuality in Japanese girls'
comics." In Sneja Gunew and Anna Yeatman, eds. Feminism and
the Politics of Difference. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press,
1993.
Poitras, Gilles. The Anime Companion: What's
Japanese in Japanese Animation. Stone Bridge Press, 1998.
-------. The Librarian's Guide to Anime
and Manga. 15 January 2000
http://www.sirus.com/~cowpunk/Libguide.html
Quinn, Charles J. (Jr.). "High Metabolism:
Manga Circa Shôwa 50." Eiji Sekine, ed. Japanese
Theatricality and Performance. West Lafayette, IN: Midwest
Assoc. for Japanese Literary Studies, 1995. 70-110.
Schoht, Frederik L. Dreamland Japan:
Writings on Modern Manga. Stone Bridge Press, 1996.
-------. Manga! Manga! The World of
Japanese Comics. Tokyo/New York: Kodansha International, 1986.
What are Manga and Anime? Student Page;
MIT. 14 January 2000
http://www.mit.edu:8001/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/r/e/rei/WWW/Expl.html

III. Anime
The Anime Cafe. (Site includes an Anime
Encyclopedia.)
http://www.abcb.com/
Anime Web Turnpike. http://www.anipike.com/
Levi, Antonia. "The Birth of the American
Otaku." Samurai from Outer Space: Understanding Japanese
Animation. Chicago: Open Court Publishing, 1996. 1-17.
McCarthy, Helen. Anime! a beginners guide to Japanese
animation. London: Titan Books, 1993.
-------. Hayao Miyazaki: master of Japanese animation: films,
themes, artistry. Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press, 1999.
Napier, Susan J. "Panic Sites: The
Japanese Imagination of Disaster from Godzilla to Akira."
Contemporary Japan and Popular Culture. John Whittier Treat,
ed. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996.
-------. "Vampires, Psychic Girls,
Flying Women and Sailor Scouts: Four faces of the young Japanese
female in Japanese Popular Culture." D. P. Martinez, ed.,
The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture. Cambridge, UK and
New York: Cambridge UP, 1998. 91-109.
Standish, Isolde. "Akira, Postmodernism
and Resistance." The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture.
D. P. Martinez, ed. Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge
UP, 1998) 56-74.
Sherman, Dov, Stephen Lepisto, and Jennifer
Reitz. Otaku World! Anime and Manga. Otaku World. Accessed 1/13/00.
http://www.otakuworld.com
Ueno, Toshiya. "Japanimation and Techno-Orientalism.
Japan as the Sub-Empire of Signs." Yamagata International
Film Festival website.
http://www.city.yamagata.yamagata.jp/yidff/ff/box/box9/en/b9enf2-1.html
Van Biesbrouck, Michael, and
Karl N. Zaryski. Anime and Manga Resources List. Accessed 1/14/00.
http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/u/mlvanbie/anime-list/

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