Shamoon, Deborah. Passionate Friendship: The Aesthetics of Girls’ Culture in Japan. By Deborah Shamoon. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai’i Press, 2012. Sarah Frederick. Passionate Friendships takes an ambitiously broad look at 20th century girls’ culture, examining the shōjofrom Meiji literature to 1920s girls’ magazines to 1970s shōjo manga. She argues […]
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Condry, Ian. The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan’s Media Success Story. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. Brian Bergstrom Ian Condry’s new ethnography of anime is a wonderfully accessible and lively tour through a comparatively understudied aspect of the medium: its production and circulation. Our sustained scholarly interest […]
Josef Steiff and Tristan D. Tamplin, Ed. Anime and Philosophy. Chicago: Open Court, 2010. Ada Palmer It is a healthy sign that, as both the economy and the publishing industry shrink, books on anime and manga continue to proliferate. The design of a manga syllabus was once little more than a […]