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These
are my essays on anime and manga. Please feel free to read them
and cite/quote/critique them if you would like. Comments and criticisms
can be addressed to brianruh@yahoo.com.
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Creating 'Amateur' Manga in the US: Pedagogy, Professionalism, and Authenticity
Originally published in the International Journal of Comic Art. Available in HTML or PDF format.
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Hacking
Your Own Ghost: Mythology in the Science Fiction Films of
Oshii Mamoru as Sites of Resistance
This is the text of the paper I presented at the Eleventh
Annual Graduate Student Conference on East Asia at Columbia
University. It's basically a preliminary summary of my M.A.
thesis.
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Liberating
Cels: Forms of the Female in Japanese Cyberpunk Animation
I presented a much shorter version of this paper at the
Eighth Annual Student Gender Studies Conference at the University
of Texas at Austin, February 15 E16, 2001.
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The
Function of Woman-Authored Manga in Japanese Society
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Mass
Media, Gender Roles, and Popular Culture in Japan and the
United States
This paper was my roundtable paper I presented at the
53rd Japan-America Student Conference. It combines some
of the ideas from the above two papers to address mass media
in a broader way.
- My column, "From Here to Shinjuku," which ran on PopMatters.com:
- "Of Bootlegs and Business" July 7, 2004
- "Maison Ikkoku and Displaced Nostalgia" May 5, 2004
- "America's Japanese Cinema: Appropriating Japan's Cachet of Cultural Cool" January 14, 2004
- "Killing in Translation" October 22, 2003
- "A Missive From the Front Lines of Fandom" September 4, 2003
- "The Animatrix and Anime's Burgeoning Influence" June 26, 2003
- "Akihabara Dreams and the New Otaku" April 23, 2003
- "Lessons of the Giant Robot" February 26, 2003
- "Toward a New Type of Culture" December 17, 2002
- "Takin' Comics to the Streets: Glimpses of the Medium's American Future" October 30, 2002
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