Frames of Anime

Japanese anime has long fascinated the world, and its mythical heroes and dazzling colors increasingly influence popular culture genres in the West. Tze-yue G. Hu analyzes the "language-medium" of this remarkable expressive platform and its many socio-cultural dimensions from a distinctly Asian frame of reference, tracing its layers of concentric radiation from Japan throughout Asia. Her work, rooted in archival investigations, interviews with animators and producers in Japan as well as other Asian animation studios, and interdisciplinary research in linguistics and performance theory, shows how dialectical aspects of anime are linked to Japan's unique experience of modernity and its cultural associations in Asia, including its reliance onlow-wage outsourcing.

ISBN	9622090974	DEWEY edition	DC22
ISBN13	9789622090972 (What's this?)	Pages	256
Publisher	Hong Kong University Press	Published in	Hong Kong
Imprint	Hong Kong University Press	Height (mm)	229
Format	Hardback	Width (mm)	152
Publication date	15 May 2010	Academic level	General, Professional / Scholarly
DEWEY	791.43340952

	List of Illustrations
	A Note to the Reader
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
Chapter 1	Origins of the Japanese Art of Animating	13
Chapter 2	Continuity of Art Forms and Their Visualness	25
Chapter 3	Cultural Thought, Expressing the Self, and Image-building	45
Chapter 4	Development of Japanese Animation up to the End of the Second World War	59
Chapter 5	Postwar Japanese Animation Development and Toei Animation Studio	77
Chapter 6	Miyazaki and Takahata Anime Cinema	105
Chapter 7	Anime in Asia: A Case of Cultural Imperialism?	137
	Epilogue	165
	Appendix 1	169
	Appendix 2	175
	Notes	179
	Glossary	201
	Animated Works Cited	205
	Bibliography	207
	Index	219

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