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  • new  Bolton, Christopher (2005) "Anime Horror and its Audience: 3x3 Eyes and Vampire Princess Miyu." In Jay McRoy (ed.), Japanese Horror Cinema. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 66-76.

  • Bornoff, Nicholas (2002). "Sex and Consumerism: The Japanese State of the Arts." In Lloyd, Fran (ed.), Consuming Bodies: Sex and Contemporary Japanese Art. London: Reaktion Books. 41-68.

  • new  Brophy, Philip (1994) "Ocular Excess: A Semiotic Morphology of Cartoon Eyes." In Kaboom!: Explosive Animation from America and Japan. Sydney, Australia: Museum of Contemporary Art. 42-58.

  • Buckley, Sandra (1991) "'Penguin in Bondage': A Graphic Tale of Japanese Comic Books." In Penley, Constance and Andrew Ross (eds.), Technoculture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 163-195.

  • new  Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong (2003) "Orienting Orientalism, or How to Map Cyberspace" In Rachel C. Lee and Sau-ling Cynthia Wong (eds.), Asian America.Net: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Cyberspace. New York: Routledge. 3-36.

  • Crawford, Ben (1996) "Emperor Tomato-Ketchup: Cartoon Properties from Japan." In Broderick, Mick (ed.), Hibakusha Cinema: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Nuclear Image in Japanese Film. London and New York: Kegan Paul International. 75-90.

  • Desser, David (2003) "Consuming Asia: Chinese and Japanese Popular Culture and the American Imaginary." In Lau, Jenny kwok Wah (ed.), Multiple Modernities: Cinemas and Popular Media in Transcultural East Asia. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 179-99.

  • Freiberg, Freda (1996) "Akira and the Postnuclear Sublime." In Broderick, Mick (ed.), Hibakusha Cinema: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Nuclear Image in Japanese Film. London and New York: Kegan Paul International. 91-102.

  • "From Analogue to Digital: Yasunori Honda in Conversation" (1999) In Brophy, Philip (ed.), Cinesonic: The World of Sound in Film. North Ryde, NSW, Australia: Australian Film, Television, and Radio School. 40-48.

  • Funabashi, Kuniko (1995) "Pornographic Culture and Sexual Violence." In Fujimura-Fanselow, Kumiko and Atsuko Kameda (eds.), Japanese Women: New Feminist Perspectives on the Past, Present, and Future. New York: The Feminist Press. 255-263.

  • new  Gregson, Kimberly S. (2005) "What if the Lead Character Looks Like Me?: Girl Fans of Shoujo Anime and Their Web Sites." In Sharon R. Mazzarella (ed.), Girl Wide Web: Girls, the Internet, and the Negotiation of Identity. New York: Peter Lang. 121-140

  • Grigsby, Mary (1999) "The Social Production of Gender as Reflected in Two Japanese Culture Industry Products: Sailormoon and Crayon Shin-Chan." In Lent, John A. (ed.), Themes and Issues in Asian Cartooning: Cute, Cheap, Mad and Sexy. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press. 183-210.

  • Hasegawa, Yuko (2002) "Post-identity Kawaii: Commerce, Gender and Contemporary Japanese Art." In Lloyd, Fran (ed.), Consuming Bodies: Sex and Contemporary Japanese Art. London: Reaktion Books. 127-141.

  • Ito, Kinko (1995) "Sexism in Japanese Weekly Comic Magazines for Men." In Lent, John A. (ed.), Asian Popular Culture. Boulder: Westview Press. 127-137.

  • new  Iwamura, Rosemary (1994) "Blue Haired Girls with Eyes so Deep, You Could Fall into Them: The Success of the Heroine in Japanese Animation." In Kaboom!: Explosive Animation from America and Japan. Sydney, Australia: Museum of Contemporary Art. 66-75.

  • Kinsella, Sharon (1995) "Cuties in Japan." In Skov, Lise and Brian Moeran (eds.), Women, Media, and Consumption in Japan. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press. 220-254.

  • Lai, Cherry Sze-Ling and Dixon Heung Wah Wong (2001) "Japanese Comics Coming to Hong Kong." In Befu, Harumi and Sylvie Guichard-Anguis (eds.), Globalizing Japan: Ethnography of the Japanese Presence in Asia, Europe, and America. London: Routledge. 111-20.

  • Lent, John A. (1999) "Comics Controversies and Codes: Reverberations in Asia." In Lent, John A. (ed.), Pulp Demons: International Dimensions of the Postwar Anti-Comics Campaign. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999. 179-214.

  • Levi, Antonia (1998) "The New American Hero: Made in Japan." In Kittelson, Mary Lynn (ed.), The Soul of Popular Culture: Looking at Contemporary Heroes, Myths, and Monsters. Chicago: Open Court. 68-83.

  • Matsui, Midori (1993) "Little Girls Were Little Boys: Displaced Femininity in the Representation of Homosexuality in Japanese Girls' Comics." In Gunew, Sneja and Anna Yeatman (eds.), Feminism and the Politics of Difference. St. Leonards, Australia: Allen & Unwin. 177-196.

  • Miles, Milo (2002) "Robots, Romance, and Ronin: Music in Japanese Anime." In Goldmark, Daniel and Yuval Taylor (eds.), The Cartoon Music Book. Chicago: A Cappella Books. 219-224.

  • Napier, Susan J. (1996) "Panic Sites: The Japanese Imagination of Disaster from Godzilla to Akira." In Treat, John Whittier (ed.), Contemporary Japan and Popular Culture. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. 235-262.

  • Napier, Susan J. (1998) "Vampires, Psychic Girls, Flying Women and Sailor Scouts: Four Faces of the Young Female in Japanese Popular Culture." In Martinez, D.P. (ed.), The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture: Gender, Shifting Boundaries and Global Cultures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 91-109.

  • Napier, Susan J. (2001) "The Frenzy of Metamorphosis: The Body in Pornographic Animation." In Washburn, Dennis and Carole Cavanaugh (eds.), Word and Image in Japanese Cinema. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 342-365.

  • Ogi, Fusami (2001) "Gender Insubordination in Japanese Comics (Manga) for Girls." In Lent, John A. (ed.), Illustrating Asia: Comics, Humor Magazines, and Picture Books. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 171-86.

  • Okamoto, Rei (2001) "Images of the Enemy in the Wartime Manga Magazine, 1941-1945." In Lent, John A. (ed.), Illustrating Asia: Comics, Humor Magazines, and Picture Books. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 204-20.

  • Orbaugh, Sharalyn (2003) "Busty Battlin' Babes: The Evolution of the Shojo in 1990s Visual Culture." In Mostow, Joshua, Norman Bryson, and Maribeth Graybill (eds.), Gender and Power in the Japanese Visual Field. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 201-28.

  • new  Perper, Timothy and Martha Cornog (2003) "Sex, Love, and Women in Japanese Comics." In Robert T. Francoeur and Raymond Noonan (eds.), The Comprehensive International Encyclopedia of Sexuality. New York: Continuum. 663-671.

  • new  Quinn, Charles J., Jr. (1995) "High Metabolism: Manga Circa Showa 50." In Eiji Sekine (ed.), Japanese Theatricality and Performance, PMAJLS: Proceedings of the Midwest Association for Japanese Literary Studies. Vol. 1, Summer 1995. 70-110.

  • Sabucco, Veruska (2003) "Guided Fan Fiction: Western 'Readings' of Japanese Homosexual-Themed Texts." In Berry, Chris, Fran Martin, and Audrey Yue (eds.), Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia. Durham: Duke University Press. 70-86.

  • new  Schilling, Mark (1994) "A Look Inside Doraemon's Pouch." In Kaboom!: Explosive Animation from America and Japan. Sydney, Australia: Museum of Contemporary Art. 76-85.

  • new  Shamoon, Deborah (2004) "Office Sluts and Rebel Flowers: The Pleasures of Japanese Pornographic Comics for Women." In Linda Williams (ed.), Porn Studies. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 77-103.

  • Shigematsu, Setsu (1999) "Dimensions of Desire: Sex, Fantasy, and Fetish in Japanese Comics." In Lent, John A. (ed.), Themes and Issues in Asian Cartooning: Cute, Cheap, Mad and Sexy. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press. 127-163.

  • Shimizu Isao (2001) "Red Comic Books: The Origins of Modern Japanese Manga." In Lent, John A. (ed.), Illustrating Asia: Comics, Humor Magazines, and Picture Books. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 137-50.

  • Shiokawa, Kanako (1999) "Cute But Deadly: Women and Violence in Japanese Comics." In Lent, John A. (ed.), Themes and Issues in Asian Cartooning: Cute, Cheap, Mad and Sexy. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press. 93-125.

  • Shiraishi, Saya S. (1997) "Japan's Soft Power: Doraemon Goes Overseas." In Katzenstein, Peter J. and Takashi Shiraishi (eds.), Network Power: Japan and Asia. Ithica: Cornell University Press. 234-72.

  • Standish, Isolde (1998) "Akira, Postmodernism and Resistance."In Martinez, D.P. (ed.), The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture: Gender, Shifting Boundaries and Global Cultures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 56-74.

  • Suzuki, Kazuko (1999) "Pornography or Therapy? Japanese Girls Creating the Yaoi Phenomenon." In Inness, Sherrie A., (ed.), Millennium Girls: Today's Girls Around the World. London: Roman & Littlefield. 243-68.

  • new  Tobin, Joseph (1998) "An American Otaku (or, a Boy's Virtual Life on the Net)" In Julian Sefton-Green (ed.), Digital Diversions: Youth Culture in the Age of Multimedia. London: UCL Press. 106-127.

  • new  Tsuji Nobuo (2001) "Early Medieval Picture Scrolls as Ancestors of Anime and Manga." In Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere (ed.), Births and Rebirths in Japanese Art. Leiden: Hotei Publishing. 53-82.

  • Yomota Inuhiko (2003) "Stranger Than Tokyo: Space and Race in Postnational Japanese Cinema." In Lau, Jenny kwok Wah (ed.), Multiple Modernities: Cinemas and Popular Media in Transcultural East Asia. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 76-89.

  • new  Yuasa, Manabu (1994) "Japanese TV Animation in the Early Years: Animation and Animated Humans." In Kaboom!: Explosive Animation from America and Japan. Sydney, Australia: Museum of Contemporary Art. 59-65.


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