Robot ghosts and wired dreams : Japanese science fiction from origins to anime /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Bolton, Christopher, Csicsery-Ronay, Istvan, Jr, Tatsumi, Takayuki, 1955-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2007]
Subjects:	Science fiction, Japanese > History and criticism. Science-fiction japonaise > Histoire et critique.
Online Access:	Publisher description

Table of Contents:

Horror and machines in prewar Japan : the mechanical uncanny in Yumeno Kyūsaku's Dogura magura / Miri Nakamura
Has the empire sunk yet? : the Pacific in Japanese science fiction / Thomas Schnellbächer
Alien spaces and alien bodies in Japanese women's science fiction / Kotani Mari
SF as Hamlet : science fiction and philosophy / Azuma Hiroki
Tsutsui Yasutaka and the multimedia performance of authorship / William O. Gardner
When the machines stop : fantasy, reality, and terminal identity in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Serial Experiments: Lain / Susan J. Napier
The mecha's blind spot : Patlabor 2 and the phenomenology of anime / Christopher Bolton
Words of alienation, words of flight : loanwords in science fiction anime / Naoki Chiba and Hiroko Chiba
Sex and the single cyborg : Japanese popular culture experiments in subjectivity / Sharalyn Orbaugh
Invasion of the woman snatchers : the problem of a-life and the uncanny in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within / Livia Monnet
Otaku sexuality / Saitō Tamaki.