{"product_id":"animes-identity-performativity-and-form-beyond-japan-hardback-9781517911775","title":"Anime's Identity; Performativity and Form Beyond Japan (Hardback) 9781517911775","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAnime's Identity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePerformativity and Form Beyond Japan\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eStevie Suan (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517911775\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 9 November 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e384 pages, 60 black \u0026amp; whilte illustrations\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 5.1 cm, 0.594 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Stevie Suan utterly transforms our understanding of anime. Using media theory to expand the formal analysis of anime conventions, while calling on a transnational framework to avoid a simplistic opposition between local and global, he not only provides incisive readings of key anime series, but also lays out a powerful and much-needed methodology for thinking anime in the world.\"-Thomas Lamarre, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Focusing on formalism and performance studies in particular, rather than taking a phenomenological or sociological approach, Stevie Suan proposes a radical alternative for engaging with anime studies.\"-Daisuke Miyao, author of \u003ci\u003eJaponisme and the Birth of Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eAnime's Identity\u003c\/i\u003e provides a multilayered overview of cultural debates on anime for an English-reading audience.\"-\u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Asian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Suan effectively challenges mainstream understandings of anime itself\"-\u003ci\u003eJapan Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA formal approach to anime rethinks globalization and transnationality under neoliberalism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Anime has become synonymous with Japanese culture, but its global reach raises a perplexing question-what happens when anime is produced outside of Japan? Who actually makes anime, and how can this help us rethink notions of cultural production? In \u003ci\u003eAnime’s Identity\u003c\/i\u003e, Stevie Suan examines how anime’s recognizable media-form-no matter where it is produced-reflects the problematics of globalization. The result is an incisive look at not only anime but also the tensions of transnationality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFar from valorizing the individualistic “originality” so often touted in national creative industries, anime reveals an alternate type of creativity based in repetition and variation. In exploring this alternative creativity and its accompanying aesthetics, Suan examines anime from fresh angles, including considerations of how anime operates like a brand of media, the intricacies of anime production occurring across national borders, inquiries into the selfhood involved in anime’s character acting, and analyses of various anime works that present differing modes of transnationality. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnime’s Identity\u003c\/i\u003e deftly merges theories from media studies and performance studies, introducing innovative formal concepts that connect anime to questions of dislocation on a global scale, creating a transformative new lens for analyzing popular media.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Anime’s Performance of Identity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Anime’s Local–Global Tensions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Anime’s Dispersed Production\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. Anime’s Media Heterotopia\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. Anime’s Citationality\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. Anime’s Creativity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6. Anime’s Actors\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7. Anime’s (Anti)Individualism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8. Anime’s Dislocation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConclusion: Anime’s World\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52619255939352,"sku":"9781517911775","price":72.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/animes-identity-performativity-and-form-beyond-japan-hardback-9781517911775","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}