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Book review: Anime Aesthetics: Japanese Animation and the ‘Post-Cinematic’ Imagination

Book review: Anime Aesthetics: Japanese Animation and the ‘Post-Cinematic’ Imagination 710737 ANM0010.1177/1746847717710737AnimationBook review book-review2017 Book review animation: an interdisciplinary journal 2017, Vol. 12(2) 191 –194 Book review © The Author(s) 2017 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav https://doi.org/10.1177/1746847717710737 DOI: 10.1177/1746847717710737 journals.sagepub.com/home/anm Amy Ratelle University of Toronto, Canada Alistair D Swale, Anime Aesthetics: Japanese Animation and the ‘Post-Cinematic’ Imagination, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015: 167 pp.: ISBN 978 1 137 46334 0, £60 (hbk) Japanese animation has received a certain amount of scholarly attention, but recent years have seen an uptick in monographs published on the subject, from Thomas Lamarre’s The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation (2009) to Jonathan Clements’ Anime: A History (2013), Rayna Denison’s Anime: A Critical Introduction (2015), and the edited collection Japanese Animation: East Asian Perspectives (Masao Yokota and Tze-yue G Hu, 2013). Lamarre’s work is notable for reframing anime as new media, pushing the boundaries of technology and film form. Clements’ and Denison’s works situate Japanese animation historically as a cultural artefact, while Yokota and Hu’s volume provides crucial context and commentary from Asian scholars and practitioners. Alistair Swale’s interest, however, is quite different. In Anime Aesthetics: Japanese Animation and the Post-Cinematic Imagination, he argues for the necessity of generating an aesthetic theory of animation in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal SAGE

Book review: Anime Aesthetics: Japanese Animation and the ‘Post-Cinematic’ Imagination

Ratelle, Amy
Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal , Volume 12 (2): 4 – Jul 1, 2017
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710737 ANM0010.1177/1746847717710737AnimationBook review book-review2017 Book review animation: an interdisciplinary journal 2017, Vol. 12(2) 191 –194 Book review © The Author(s) 2017 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav https://doi.org/10.1177/1746847717710737 DOI: 10.1177/1746847717710737 journals.sagepub.com/home/anm Amy Ratelle University of Toronto, Canada Alistair D Swale, Anime Aesthetics: Japanese Animation and the ‘Post-Cinematic’ Imagination, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015: 167 pp.: ISBN 978 1 137 46334 0, £60 (hbk) Japanese animation has received a certain amount of scholarly attention, but recent years have seen an uptick in monographs published on the subject, from Thomas Lamarre’s The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation (2009) to Jonathan Clements’ Anime: A History (2013), Rayna Denison’s Anime: A Critical Introduction (2015), and the edited collection Japanese Animation: East Asian Perspectives (Masao Yokota and Tze-yue G Hu, 2013). Lamarre’s work is notable for reframing anime as new media, pushing the boundaries of technology and film form. Clements’ and Denison’s works situate Japanese animation historically as a cultural artefact, while Yokota and Hu’s volume provides crucial context and commentary from Asian scholars and practitioners. Alistair Swale’s interest, however, is quite different. In Anime Aesthetics: Japanese Animation and the Post-Cinematic Imagination, he argues for the necessity of generating an aesthetic theory of animation in

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