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Review: Steven T. Brown (ed.), Cinema Anime: Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 248 pp. ISBN 1—4039—7060—2 (hbk)

Review: Steven T. Brown (ed.), Cinema Anime: Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation. New... reviews Reviews Steven T. Brown (ed.), Cinema Anime: Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 248 pp. ISBN 1–4039–7060–2 (hbk) The appearance of a book with the title Cinema Anime: Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation is an exciting event for an emergent field – Anime Studies – that is mostly populated by introduc- tory books, encyclopaedias and manuals on how to draw anime characters. The title alone promises a book that considers the relation of anime to other media, and moreover anime as a medium or at the very least a media type (rather than a literary approach that treats only genres or narratives). In addition, the title promises a certain level of critique all too absent from most books on anime. Generally speaking, these expectations are met by the essays in this anthology, essays which put anime into relation with such issues as globalization, power relations, gender relations and representations, the gaze, modernity and postmodernity, media formations, colonialism, distributions of labour, embodiment, identity, and media environments. The book is divided into three sections, and consists of nine essays (including the introduction) written by authors from various fields, all of whom have experience writing about anime, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal SAGE

Review: Steven T. Brown (ed.), Cinema Anime: Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 248 pp. ISBN 1—4039—7060—2 (hbk)

Steinberg, Marc
Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal , Volume 2 (2): 4 – Jul 1, 2007
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reviews Reviews Steven T. Brown (ed.), Cinema Anime: Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 248 pp. ISBN 1–4039–7060–2 (hbk) The appearance of a book with the title Cinema Anime: Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation is an exciting event for an emergent field – Anime Studies – that is mostly populated by introduc- tory books, encyclopaedias and manuals on how to draw anime characters. The title alone promises a book that considers the relation of anime to other media, and moreover anime as a medium or at the very least a media type (rather than a literary approach that treats only genres or narratives). In addition, the title promises a certain level of critique all too absent from most books on anime. Generally speaking, these expectations are met by the essays in this anthology, essays which put anime into relation with such issues as globalization, power relations, gender relations and representations, the gaze, modernity and postmodernity, media formations, colonialism, distributions of labour, embodiment, identity, and media environments. The book is divided into three sections, and consists of nine essays (including the introduction) written by authors from various fields, all of whom have experience writing about anime,

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