Research Catalog
Lines of sight / Frenchy Lunning, editor.
- Title
- Lines of sight / Frenchy Lunning, editor.
- Publication
- Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press ; Bristol : University Presses Marketing [distributor], c2012
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Not available - Please for assistance. | Text | Request in advance | NC1766.J3 L55 2012 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- xviii, 301 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
- Summary
- "Lines of Sight, the seventh volume in the Mechademia series, an annual forum devoted to Japanese anime and manga, explores the various ways in which anime, manga, digital media, fan culture, and Japanese art--from scroll paintings to superflat--challenge, undermine, or disregard the concept of Cartesian (or one-point) perspective, the dominant mode of visual culture in the West since the seventeenth century. More than just a visual mode or geometric system, Cartesianism has shaped nearly every aspect of modern rational thought, from mathematics and science to philosophy and history. Framed by Thomas Lamarre's introduction, "Radical Perspectivalism," the essays here approach Japanese popular culture as a visual mode that employs non-Cartesian formations, which by extension make possible new configurations of perception and knowledge. Whether by shattering the illusion of visual or narrative seamlessness through the use of multiple layers or irregular layouts, blurring the divide between viewer and creator, providing diverse perspectives within a single work of art, or rejecting dualism, causality, and other hallmarks of Cartesianism, anime and manga offer in their radicalization of perspective the potential for aesthetic and even political transformation." -- Publisher's description.
- Series Statement
- Mechademia ; 7
- Uniform Title
- Mechademia 7.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Intervals. Inventing Intervals: The Digital Image in Metropolis an Gankutsu / Marc Steinberg -- Takahashi Macoto: The Origin of Sojo Manga Style / Fujimoto Yukari Translated by Matt Thorn -- The Face in the Shadow of the Camera: Corporeality of the Photographer in Kanai Mieko's Narratives / Atsuko Sakaki -- Kamishibai and the Art of the Interval / Sharalyn Orbaugh -- World Perspective. Hokusai's Lines of Sight / Timon Screech -- Superflat and the Postmodern Gothic: Images of Western Modernity in Kuroshitsuji / Waiyee Loh -- From Techno-cute ot Superflat: Robots and Asian Architectural Futures / David Beynon -- Dying in Two Dimensions: Genji emaki and the Wages of Depth Perception / Reginald Jackson -- Image Essay: Mobile Worldviews / Stefan Riekeles and Thomas Lamarre -- Nonlocalizable Selves. Topologies of Identity in Serial Experiments Lain / Craig Jackson -- From Superflat Windows to Facebook Walls: Mobility and Multiplicity of an Animated Shopping Gaze / Jinying Li -- New Halves, Old Selves: Reincarnation and Transgender Identification in Oshima Yumiko's Tsurubara-tsurubara / Emily Somers -- Energetic Matter. Audiovisual Redundancy and Remediation in Ninja bugeicho / Yuriko Furuhata -- Moving the Horizon: Violence and Cinematic Revolution in Oshima Nagisa's Ninja bugeicho / Miryan Sas -- Anatomy of Permutational Desire, Part III: The Artificial Woman and the Perverse Structure of Modernity / Livia Monnet.
- ISBN
- 9780816680498
- 0816680493
- OCLC
- 788272105
- SCSB-13716495
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library