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Author: Christopher Hart
Publisher: Chris Hart Books
Published: 2017-08-24
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781942021834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIdeal for fans of the Kawaii genre of manga, this adorable sketchbook with guided prompts from bestselling author Hart and inspiring art throughout will inspire endless creativity. Includes two sticker sheets featuring adorable Kawaii characters, a ribbon bookmark, and elastic closure. Full color. Consumable.
Author: Timothy Perper
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2011-10-24
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1591589096
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFascinating insights on what Japanese manga and anime mean to artists, audiences, and fans in the United States and elsewhere, covering topics that range from fantasy to sex to politics. Within the last decade, anime and manga have become extremely popular in the United States. Mangatopia: Essays on Manga and Anime in the Modern World provides a sophisticated anthology of varied commentary from authors well versed in both formats. These essays provide insights unavailable on the Internet, giving the interested general reader in-depth information well beyond the basic, "Japanese Comics 101" level, and providing those who teach and write about manga and anime valuable knowledge to further expand their expertise. The topics addressed range widely across various artists and art styles, media methodology and theory, reception of manga and anime in different cultural markets, and fan behavior. Specific subjects covered include sexually explicit manga drawn and read by women; the roots of manga in Japanese and world film; the complexity of fan activities, including "cosplay," fan-drawn manga, and fans' highly specific predilections; right-wing manga; and manga about Hiroshima and despair following World War II. The book closes with an examination of the international appeal of manga and anime.
Author: Casey Brienza
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-09
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 131712765X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOutside Japan, the term ’manga’ usually refers to comics originally published in Japan. Yet nowadays many publications labelled ’manga’ are not translations of Japanese works but rather have been wholly conceived and created elsewhere. These comics, although often derided and dismissed as ’fake manga’, represent an important but understudied global cultural phenomenon which, controversially, may even point to a future of ’Japanese’ comics without Japan. This book takes seriously the political economy and cultural production of this so-called ’global manga’ produced throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia and explores the conditions under which it arises and flourishes; what counts as ’manga’ and who gets to decide; the implications of global manga for contemporary economies of cultural and creative labour; the ways in which it is shaped by or mixes with local cultural forms and contexts; and, ultimately, what it means for manga to be ’authentically’ Japanese in the first place. Presenting new empirical research on the production of global manga culture from scholars across the humanities and social sciences, as well as first person pieces and historical overviews written by global manga artists and industry insiders, Global Manga will appeal to scholars of cultural and media studies, Japanese studies, and popular and visual culture.
Author: David & Charles Publishers
Publisher: David & Charles
Published: 2020-10-13
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781446308455
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCreate your own super-cool journal filled with manga motifs! A Bullet Journal can be used as a calendar, diary, organizer, habit tracker - or all of these things. But not everyone has the time or ideas to design the pages themselves. My Manga Journalis the perfect solution, with pages pre-designed with amazing manga art for you to start filling with lists, goals, plans, secrets and dreams. Beautifully finished with rounded corners and foiled cover, this is the perfect planner for kids and teens who love manga and anime.
Author: Claire Maree
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-06-30
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 0190869623
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the twins Osugi and Peeco to longstanding icon Miwa Akihiro, Claire Maree traces the figure of the Japanese queerqueen, showing how a diversity of gender identifications, sexual orientations, and discursive styles are commodified and packaged together to form this character. Representations of gay men's speech have changed in tandem with gender norms, increasingly crossing over into popular media via the body of the "authentic" gay male up to and including the current "LGBT boom" in Japan. In this context, queerqueen demonstrates how commercial practices of recording, transcribing, and editing spoken interactions and use of on-screen text encode queerqueen speech as inherently excessive and in need of containment. Tackling questions of authenticity, self-censorship, and the restrictions of heteronormativity within this perception of queer excess, Maree shows how queerqueen styles reproduce stereotypes of gender, sexuality, and desire that are essential to the business of mainstream entertainment.
Author: Casey Brienza
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-01-28
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1472595882
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJapanese manga comic books have attracted a devoted global following. In the popular press manga is said to have “invaded” and “conquered” the United States, and its success is held up as a quintessential example of the globalization of popular culture challenging American hegemony in the twenty-first century. In Manga in America - the first ever book-length study of the history, structure, and practices of the American manga publishing industry - Casey Brienza explodes this assumption. Drawing on extensive field research and interviews with industry insiders about licensing deals, processes of translation, adaptation, and marketing, new digital publishing and distribution models, and more, Brienza shows that the transnational production of culture is an active, labor-intensive, and oft-contested process of “domestication.” Ultimately, Manga in America argues that the domestication of manga reinforces the very same imbalances of national power that might otherwise seem to have been transformed by it and that the success of Japanese manga in the United States actually serves to make manga everywhere more American.
Author: Roman Rosenbaum
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 041569423X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited collection explores how graphic art and in particular Japanese manga represent Japanese history. The articles explore the representation of history in manga from disciplines that include such diverse fields as literary studies, politics, history, cultural studies, linguistics, narratology, and semiotics. Despite this diversity of approaches all academics from these respective fields of study agree that manga pose a peculiarly contemporary appeal that transcends the limitation imposed by traditional approaches to the study and teaching of history. The representation of history via manga in Japan has a long and controversial historiographical dimension. Thereby manga and by extension graphic art in Japanese culture has become one of the world's most powerful modes of expressing contemporary historical verisimilitude. The contributors to this volume elaborate how manga and by extension graphic art rewrites, reinvents and re-imagines the historicity and dialectic of bygone epochs in postwar and contemporary Japan. Manga and the Representation of Japanese History will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian studies, Asian history, Japanese culture and society, as well as art and visual culture
Author: Camilla d'Errico
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Published: 2021-06-01
Total Pages: 97
ISBN-13: 0593138228
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA stylish sketchbook from acclaimed manga artist and painter Camilla d'Errico, featuring creative drawing prompts and a smattering of her signature cute, creepy, and quirky characters. The Pop Manga Sketchbook is packed with ideas and inspiration from the instructional expert on manga, anime, and Pop Surrealism, Camilla d'Errico. With a brief introduction from the beloved artist, thirty drawing prompts, and fifty of d'Errico's stunning sketches sprinkled throughout, this guided drawing journal is perfect for artists of all skill levels. Fans of d'Errico's instructional Pop Manga books and newcomers to manga and drawing will be swept into the artist's uniquely colorful, surreal world in the pages of this sketchbook. A layflat binding provides plenty of room for artists to practice their drawing skills, and the sturdy paper is suitable for pencil, ink, and watercolor. Whether you are a beginner or a devoted fan, you will draw inspiration from The Pop Manga Sketchbook.
Author: Vernieda Vergara
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2023-07-04
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1507220901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRate and record your favorite manga as well as track your progress and make notes with this must-have journal perfect for manga readers everywhere. Calling all manga readers: this book is just for you! My Manga Collection is a tracker and reading journal created for manga fans to record the details of their favorite series and keep track of their progress. Inside, you’ll find easy-to-use templates for each series you’re reading with space to review each volume as you read and make a note of what you read so you can easily pick up where you left off. Each template ends with a series of thoughtful questions to get you thinking about your reading, and help you decide what to read next. It’s everything you need to keep up with your god-tier favorites, your trash reads, and everything in between.
