Japanese Animation

Never before available in English East Asian critiques and discussion of a powerful Japanese export and popular art formContributions by Kenny K. N. Chow Sheuo Hui Gan Hiroshi Ikeda Sonoko Ishida Tokumitsu Kifune Joon Yang Kim Dong-Yeon Koh Masashi Koide Akiko Sano Akiko Sugawa-Shimada Nobuyuki Tsugata Yasushi Watanabe and Makiko YamanashiJapanese Animation: East Asian Perspectives makes available for the first time to English readership a selection of viewpoints from media practitioners designers educators and scholars working in the East Asian Pacific. This collection not only engages a multidisciplinary approach in understanding Japanese animation but also shows ways to research teach and more fully explore this multidimensional world.Presented in six sections the translated essays cross-reference each other. The collection adopts a wide range of critical historical practical and experimental approaches. This variety provides a creative and fascinating edge for both specialist and nonspecialist readers. Contributors' works share a common relevance interest and involvement despite their regional considerations and the different modes of analysis demonstrated. They form a composite of teaching and research ideas on Japanese animation.Masao Yokota Tokyo Japan is professor of psychology at Nihon University and former chair of the Japan Society for Animation Studies. Tze-yue G. Hu Oklahoma City Oklahoma is an independent scholar and author of Frames of Anime: Culture and Image-Building.