{"product_id":"mechademia-8-tezukas-manga-life-paperback-softback-9780816689552","title":"Mechademia 8; Tezuka's Manga Life (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816689552","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMechademia 8\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTezuka's Manga Life\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eFrenchy Lunning (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816689552\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 21 January 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages, 96\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 3.8 cm, 0.736 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKnown as the “Walt Disney of Japan” it is no surprise that Tezuka Osamu is still the best-known manga creator to Western fans. Current scholarship has uncovered the profound complexity and ambiguity not only of his work but of the man, the artist, and his life-dismantling his position as the god of manga.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors to this volume of \u003cem\u003eMechademia\u003c\/em\u003e-a series devoted to creative and critical work on anime, manga, and the fan arts-analyze Tezuka and his complicated approaches toward life and nonlife on earth, as well as his effect on the lives of other manga artists. Using essays and reprints of Japanese manga on Tezuka, this book questions his influence and attitudes toward the nonhuman, evolutionary theory, the aesthetic lineage of contemporary manga, incipient feminism in the reinscription of the nonhuman feminine, the sexual politics of manga bodies, the origins of the moe culture, and the styles of didacticism revealing the digressions of insects and classical modes, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe authors offer varying perspectives on the historical transformations in production, distribution, and reception that gradually integrated and differentiated an overlapping series of markets and readerships in the postwar era. Divided into four sections that explore different “lives”-“Nonhuman Life,” “Media Life,” “A Life in Manga,” and “Everyday Life”-\u003cem\u003eMechademia 8 \u003c\/em\u003eserves as a prehistory of the impersonal politics of the present while tracing Tezuka’s legacy. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors: Akatsuka Fujio; Anno Moyoko; Linda H. Chance, U of Pennsylvania; Jonathan Clements; Hideaki Fujiki, Nagoya U; Patrick W. Galbraith; Verina Gfader, U of Huddersfield; Alicia Gibson; G. Clinton Godart, USC; Yorimitsu Hashimoto, Osaka U; Ryan Holmberg; Hikari Hori, Columbia U; Mary A. Knighton, College of William and Mary; Thomas Lamarre, McGill U; Christine L. Marran, U of Minnesota; Natsume Fusanosuke, Gakushuin U, Tokyo; Ōtsuka Eiji, Kobe Design U; Baryon Tensor Posadas; Renato Rivera Rusca, Meiji U; Frederik L. Schodt; Marc Steinberg, Concordia U; Tezuka Osamu; Toshiya Ueno, Wako U, Tokyo; Matthew Young. \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Manga Life: Tezuka . . .\u003cb\u003eThomas Lamarre\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNonhuman Life\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Becoming-Insect Woman”: Tezuka’s Feminist Species\u003cb\u003eMary A. Knighton\u003cb\u003eDiary of an Insect ShÔjo’s Vagabond Life\u003cb\u003eTezuka Osamu\u003cb\u003eTranslated by Mary A. Knighton\u003cb\u003eTezuka Osamu’s Circle of Life: Vitalism, Evolution, and Buddhism\u003cb\u003eG. Clinton Godart\u003cb\u003eAtom Came from Bugs: The Precocious Didacticism of Tezuka Osamu’s \u003cem\u003eEssays in Insect Idleness\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eLinda H. Chance\u003cb\u003eOn the Fabulation of a Form of Life in the Drawn Line and Systems of Thought\u003cb\u003eVerina Gfader\u003cb\u003eThe Metamorphic and Microscopic in Tezuka Osamu’s Graphic Novels\u003cb\u003eChristine L. Marran\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMedia Life\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhere Is Tezuka?: A Theory of Manga Expression\u003cb\u003eNatsume Fusanosuke\u003cb\u003eTranslated by Matthew Young\u003cb\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhoenix 2772:\u003c\/em\u003e A 1980 Turning Point for Tezuka and Anime\u003cb\u003eRenato Rivera Rusca\u003cb\u003eCopying Atomu\u003cb\u003eMarc Steinberg\u003cb\u003eTokiwasou Story\u003cb\u003eAkatsuka Fujio\u003cb\u003eTranslated by Matthew Young\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Life in Manga\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToward a Theory of “Artist-Manga”: Manga Self-Consciousness and the Transforming Figure of the Artist\u003cb\u003eYorimitsu Hashimoto\u003cb\u003eTranslated by Baryon Tensor Posadas\u003cb\u003e\u003cem\u003eManga ShÔnen\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003cem\u003eKatÔ Ken’ichi\u003c\/em\u003e and the Manga Boys\u003cb\u003eRyan Holmberg\u003cb\u003eImplicating Readers: Tezuka’s Early Seinen Manga\u003cb\u003eHideaki Fujiki\u003cb\u003eTezuka’s Anime Revolution in Context\u003cb\u003eJonathan Clements\u003cb\u003eDesigning a World\u003cb\u003eFrederik L. Schodt\u003cb\u003eUnico\u003cb\u003eAnno Moyoko\u003cb\u003eTranslated by Matthew Young\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEveryday Life\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn Unholy Alliance of Eisenstein and Disney: The Fascist Origins of Otaku Culture\u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;Ocirc;tsuka Eiji\u003cb\u003eTranslated by Thomas Lamarre\u003cb\u003eOsamu Moet Moso: Imagining Lines of Eroticism in Akihabara\u003cb\u003ePatrick W. 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