Selected Bibliography: Manga and Anime

items in green are in the course reader
items in brown are on reserve
items in purple are student additions to the bibliography
book icon indicates a link to a student annotation

 

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 1980’s." 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 beginner’s 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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