Full Metal Apache

Informationen zum Autor Takayuki Tatsumi Klappentext Compares modern science fiction and the avant garde pop scene in America and Japan. Zusammenfassung A study of the dynamic cross-currents between the avant gardes and pop cultures of Japan and the United States! by one of Japan's leading cultural critics Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Larry McCaffery xi Acknowledgements xxiii Introduction: Anatomies of Dependence 1 Part One: Theory 1. Mikadophilia, or The Fate of Cyborgian Identity in Postmillenarian Milieu 9 2. Comparative Metafiction: Somewhere between Ideology and Rhetoric 38 Part Two: History 3. Virus as Metaphor: A Postorientalist Reading of the Future War Novels of the 1890s 63 4. Deep North Gothic: A Postoccidentalist Reading of Hearn, Yangita, and Akutagawa 71 5. Which Way to Coincidence: A Queer Reading of J. Ballard's Crash 86 6. A Manifesto for Gynoids: A Cyborg Feminist Reading of Richard Calder 93 Part Three: Aesthetics 7. Semiotic Ghost Stories: The Japanese Reflection of Mirrorshades 105 8. Junk Art City, or How Gibson Meets Thomasson in Virtual Light 112 9. Pax Exotica: A New Exoticist Perspective on Audrey, Anna-chan, and Idoru 123 Part Four: Performance 10. Magic Realist Tokyo: Poe's The Man That Was Used Up as a Subtext for Bartók-Terayama's Magical Musical The Miraculous Mandarin 137 Part Five: Representation 11. Full Metal Apache: Shinya Tsukamoto's Tetsuo Diptych, or The Impact of American Narrative son the Japanese Representation of Cyborgian Identity 151

Autorentext
Takayuki Tatsumi

Klappentext
Compares modern science fiction and the avant garde pop scene in America and Japan.


Zusammenfassung
A study of the dynamic cross-currents between the avant gardes and pop cultures of Japan and the United States, by one of Japan's leading cultural critics

Inhalt
Foreword by Larry McCaffery xi
Acknowledgements xxiii
Introduction: Anatomies of Dependence 1
Part One: Theory
1. Mikadophilia, or The Fate of Cyborgian Identity in Postmillenarian Milieu 9
2. Comparative Metafiction: Somewhere between Ideology and Rhetoric 38
Part Two: History
3. Virus as Metaphor: A Postorientalist Reading of the Future War Novels of the 1890s 63
4. Deep North Gothic: A Postoccidentalist Reading of Hearn, Yangita, and Akutagawa 71
5. Which Way to Coincidence: A Queer Reading of J. Ballard’s Crash 86
6. A Manifesto for Gynoids: A Cyborg Feminist Reading of Richard Calder 93
Part Three: Aesthetics
7. Semiotic Ghost Stories: The Japanese Reflection of Mirrorshades 105
8. Junk Art City, or How Gibson Meets Thomasson in Virtual Light 112
9. Pax Exotica: A New Exoticist Perspective on Audrey, Anna-chan, and Idoru 123
Part Four: Performance
10. Magic Realist Tokyo: Poe’s “The Man That Was Used Up” as a Subtext for Bartók-Terayama’s Magical Musical The Miraculous Mandarin 137
Part Five: Representation
11. Full Metal Apache: Shinya Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo Diptych, or The Impact of American Narrative son the Japanese Representation of Cyborgian Identity 151

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