Arsenault, Dominic. Super Power, Spoony Bards, and Silverware: The Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2017. Forrest Greenwood At this juncture, roughly 10 years into the Platform Studies project that Ian Bogost and Nick Montfort initiated within the field of video game studies, it is worth taking […]
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Review of Boys Love Manga and Beyond: History, Culture, and Community in Japan, Edited by Mark McLelland, Kazumi Nagaike, Katsuhiko Suganuma, and James Welker (University Press of Mississippi, 2015). By Casey Lee Boys Love (BL) is a by-women-for-women form of male/male homoerotic media originating in Japan. For much of its […]
Steinberg, Marc. Anime’s Media Mix: Franchising Toys and Characters in Japan. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. Alexander Zahlten We have no doubt entered the age of the “trans-”. Conferences and journal articles are brimming with transnational, transdisciplinary, and transgender concerns. Indeed transmedia has become one of the central concepts of the re-reinvigoration […]