BOOKS
These
books feature information on anime and manga or comics and animation
in general.
- Allison, Anne (1996) Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and
Censorship in Japan. Berkeley: University of California
Press.
- Reviewed
here in Intersections
- Bacordi, Andrea,
et al. (2000) Anime: A Guide To Japanese Animation (1958-1988).
Protoculture.
- Reviewed here
in The Critical Eye
- Clements, Jonathan
and McCarthy, Helen (2001) The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide
to Japanese Animation Since 1917. Berkeley: Stone Bridge
Press.
- Reviewed
here in PopMatters
- Reviewed here
in AnimeNewsNetwork
- Reviewed here
in Akadot
- Reviewed here
(with other Japanese film books) in Midnight Eye
- Cooper-Chen,
Anne (1997) Mass Communication in Japan. Ames, Iowa:
Iowa State University Press.
- Craig, Timothy J.
(ed.) (2000) Japan Pop!: Inside the World of Japanese
Popular Culture. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.
- Reviewed here
in The Japan Times
- Reviewed here in H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online
- Drazen, Patrick
(2002) Anime Explosion!: The What? Why? and Wow of Japanese
Animation. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press.
- new Fukushima, Yoshiko (2003) Manga Discourse in Japanese Theater: The Location of Noda Hideki's Yume no Yuminsha. London: Kegan Paul.
- new Gravett, Paul (2005) Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics. New York: HarperCollins Design
- Iwabuchi, Koichi
(2002) Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and
Asian Transnationalism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
- Kinsella, Sharon
(2000) Adult Manga: Culture & Power in Contemporary
Japanese Society. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
- Reviewed here
by Carl Gustav Horn in Pulp
- Ledoux, Trish (ed.)
(1997) Anime Interviews: The First Five Years of Animerica
Anime & Manga Monthly (1992-1997). San Francisco:
Viz Communications.
- Ledoux, Trish and
Ranney, Doug (1997) The Complete Anime Guide. Issaquah,
WA: Tiger Mountain Press.
- new Lehmann, Timothy (2005) Manga: Masters of the Art. New York: HarperCollins Design.
- Lent, John A.(2001) Animation in Asia and the Pacific. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press.
- Levi, Antonia (1996) Samurai From Outer Space: Understanding Japanese Animation.
Chicago and LaSalle, IL: Open Court.
- Lu,
Alvin (ed.) (1999) Fresh Pulp: Dispatches From the Japanese
Pop Culture Front (1997-1999). San Francisco: Cadence
Books.
- new Macias, Patrick and Tomohiro Machiyama (2004) Cruising the Anime City: An Otaku Guide to Neo Tokyo. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press.
- Martinez, D.P. (1998) The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture: Gender, Shifting
Boundaries and Global Cultures. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
- Reviewed here
in Intersections
- McCarthy, Helen
(1996) The Anime! Movie Guide. Woodstock, NY: Overlook
Press.
- Reviewed here
in Animation World Network
- McCarthy, Helen
(1999) Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation.
Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press.
- Reviewed here
by Donald Richie in The Japan Times
- Reviewed here
(with other Japanese film books) in Midnight Eye
- McCarthy, Helen
and Clements, Jonathan (1999) The Erotic Anime Movie Guide.
Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press.
- Reviewed here
by Donald Richie in The Japan Times
- McCloud, Scott (1994) Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. New York:
HarperPerennial.
- Napier, Susan J.
(2001) Anime: From Akira to Princess Mononoke. New
York: Palgrave.
- Reviewed here
in The Japan Times
- Reviewed here
in Animation World Magazine
- new Patten, Fred (2004) Watching Anime, Reading Manga: 25 Years of Essays and Reviews. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press.
- Pilling, Jayne (1997) A Reader in Animation Studies. London : J. Libbey.
- Poitras, Gilles
(1999) The Anime Companion: What's Japanese in Japanese
Animation? Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press.
- Poitras, Gilles (2001) Anime Essentials: Every Thing a Fan Needs to Know. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press.
- new Poitras, Gilles (2005) The Anime Companion 2: More What's Japanese in Japanese Animation? Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press.
- Powers, Richard
Gid and Hidetoshi Katio (eds.) (1989) Handbook of Japanese
Popular Culture. New York: Greenwood Press.
- Roman, Annette (ed.)
(1999) Japan Edge : The Insider's Guide to Japanese Pop
Subculture. San Francisco: Cadence Books.
- new Ruh, Brian (2004) Stray Dog of Anime: The Films of Mamoru Oshii. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Sabin, Roger (1993) Adult Comics: An Introduction. London and New York:
Routledge.
- Schilling, Mark
(1997) The Encyclopedia of Japanese Pop Culture. New
York: Weatherhill.
- Schodt, Frederik
L. (1996) Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga.
Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press.
- Schodt, Frederik
L. (1983) Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics.
New York: Kodansha International.
- Slaymaker, Douglas
(ed.) (2000) A Century of Popular Culture in Japan.
Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press
- Tsurumi, Shunsuke
(1987) A Cultural History of Postwar Japan, 1945-1980.
London and New York: KPI Limited.
- Wells, Paul (1999) Understanding Animation. London and New York: Routledge.
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