From computer games to figurines and maid cafes, men called “otaku” develop intense fan
relationships with “cute girl” characters from manga, anime, and related media and material …

This new addition to the AFI Film Readers series brings together original scholarship on
animation in contemporary moving image culture, from classic experimental and …

How have animation fans in Japan, South Korea, the United States, and Canada formed
communities and dealt with conflicts across cultural and geographic distance? This book …

How do the worlds that state administrators manage become the feelings publics embody?
In Administering Affect, Daniel White addresses this question by documenting the rise of a …

A. Maitra and R. Chow necessary to speak of new media “in Asia” if digital media is
everywhere? What does the putative Asian-ness of digital media practices—if there could be …

The delight of animation comes of the experience of movement, and the art of animation is,
above all, that of movement. Attempts to characterize animation, to gauge its marvels …

In 1911, at the age of thirty-four, Hesse traveled across South-East Asia and India. While this
may have been some typical act of European bourgeois fascination or rite-of-passage in the …

The linking of Japan's manga culture to a premodern past is common both in and outside of
Japan, and it is indicative of a widely held perception that manga developed out of centuries …

This article examines discourses of subculture and their relationship to the fiction of
Murakami Haruki. By tracing the connections between Murakami's texts and their reception …

Culture is the constant process of producing meanings of and from our social experience
and such meanings necessarily produce a social identity for the people involved. Making …