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Lines of Sight
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Product Description: 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...read more
By Christopher Bolton (contributor), Fujimoto Yukari (contributor), Thomas Lamarre (contributor), Frenchy Lunning (editor) and Michelle Ollie (contributor)
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Paperback:

9780816680498, titled "Lines of Sight: Lines of Sight" | Univ of Minnesota Pr, October 30, 2012, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: 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.

Sublime Voices: The Fictional Science and Scientific Fiction of Abe Kobo
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Product Description: Since the 1950s, Abe Kobo (1924–1993) has achieved an international reputation for his surreal or grotesque brand of avant-garde literature. From his early forays into science fiction to his more mature psychological novels and films, and finally the complicated experimental works produced near the end of his career, Abe weaves together a range of “voices”: the styles of science and the language of literary forms...read more
By Christopher Bolton
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Hardcover:

9780674032781 | Harvard Univ Council on East Asian, June 15, 2009, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Since the 1950s, Abe Kobo (1924–1993) has achieved an international reputation for his surreal or grotesque brand of avant-garde literature.

Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime
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Product Description: Since the end of the Second World War—and particularly over the last decade—Japanese science fiction has strongly influenced global popular culture. Unlike American and British science fiction, its most popular examples have been visual—from Gojira (Godzilla) and Astro Boy in the 1950s and 1960s to the anime masterpieces Akira and Ghost in the Shell of the 1980s and 1990s—while little attention has been paid to a vibrant tradition of prose science fiction in Japan...read more
By Christopher Bolton (editor), Csicsery-ronay (editor) and Takayuki Tatsumi (editor)
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9780816649730 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, November 16, 2007, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Since the end of the Second World War—and particularly over the last decade—Japanese science fiction has strongly influenced global popular culture.

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