Moon, Michael. Darger’s Resources. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. J. Keith Vincent Henry Darger (1892-1973) was a reclusive Chicago janitor who spent six decades writing and illustrating a sprawling, 15,145-page narrative about seven glamorous and gutsy little girls leading a child slave rebellion against an evil empire. By all indications Darger […]
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Thomas Lamarre. The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. Miri Nakamura Thomas Lamarre’s Anime Machine is an enlightening work of astounding intellectual depth. In the first scholarship to treat anime as technology, Lamarre propounds his own theory of animation, one that does not rely purely […]