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“miryam sas”

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  • Feeling Media

    Potentiality and the Afterlife of Art

    by Miryam Sas ...
    In Feeling Media Miryam Sas explores the potentialities and limitations of media theory and media art in Japan. Opening media studies and affect theory up to a deeper engagement with works and theorists outside Euro-America, Sas offers a framework of analysis she calls the affective scale—the space where artists and theorists work between the level of the individual and larger global and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami

    by Matthew Carl Strecher ...
    In an “other world” composed of language—it could be a fathomless Martian well, a labyrinthine hotel or forest—a narrative unfolds, and with it the experiences, memories, and dreams that constitute reality for Haruki Murakami’s characters and readers alike. Memories and dreams in turn conjure their magical counterparts—people without names or pasts, fantastic animals, half-animals, and talking ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Japanoise

    Music at the Edge of Circulation

    by David Novak ...
    Series series Sign, Storage, Transmission
    Noise, an underground music made through an amalgam of feedback, distortion, and electronic effects, first emerged as a genre in the 1980s, circulating on cassette tapes traded between fans in Japan, Europe, and North America. With its cultivated obscurity, ear-shattering sound, and over-the-top performances, Noise has captured the imagination of a small but passionate transnational audience.For ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Seeing Through the World

    Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness

    by Jeremy D Johnson ...
    Series Book 1 - Nuralogicals
    Seeing Through the World introduces the reader to the work of German-Swiss philosopher, poet, and intellectual mystic Jean Gebser (1905-1973). Writing in the midcentury during a period of intense cultural transformation and crisis in Europe, Gebser intuited a series of mutational leaps in the history of human consciousness, the latest of which emerging was the “integral” structure, marked by the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Anime’s Media Mix

    Franchising Toys and Characters in Japan

    by Marc Steinberg ...
    In Anime’s Media Mix, Marc Steinberg convincingly shows that anime is far more than a style of Japanese animation. Beyond its immediate form of cartooning, anime is also a unique mode of cultural production and consumption that led to the phenomenon that is today called “media mix” in Japan and “convergence” in the West.According to Steinberg, both anime and the media mix were ignited on January 1 ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams

    Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime

    Edited by Christopher Bolton, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Takayuki Tatsumi ...
    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 ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Boys Love Manga and Beyond

    History, Culture, and Community in Japan

    Edited by Mark McLelland, Kazumi Nagaike, Katsuhiko Suganuma, James Welker ...
    Boys Love Manga and Beyond looks at a range of literary, artistic and other cultural products that celebrate the beauty of adolescent boys and young men. In Japan, depiction of the “beautiful boy” has long been a romantic and sexualized trope for both sexes and commands a high degree of cultural visibility today across a range of genres from pop music to animation.In recent decades, “Boys Love” ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Occulture

    The Unseen Forces That Drive Culture Forward

    by Carl Abrahamsson ...
    Explores the role of magic and the occult in art and culture from ancient times to today• Examines key figures behind esoteric cultural developments, such as Carl Jung, Anton LaVey, Paul Bowles, Aleister Crowley, and Rudolf Steiner• Explores the history of magic as a source of genuine counter culture and compares it with our contemporary soulless, digital monoculture• Reveals how the magic of art ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Imagining Futures of Experimental Media

    by Aaditya Aggarwal, Angel Callander, Lena Chen, Eli Hirtle, Gladys Lou, Renata Azevedo Moreira, Divine Ndemeye, Dhvani Ramanujam, Darian Razdar, Cody Rooney, Elida Schogt, Fan Wu, and more ...
    Series Book 1 - Pleasure Dome E-Book, Digital Now Series
    Pleasure Dome (Artists Film Exhibition Group of Ontario) is pleased to announce the launch of its very first e-book, Imagining Futures of Experimental Media (2023), published in collaboration with the National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition and OddSide Arts. Edited by Aaditya Aggarwal, Elida Schogt, and Fan Wu and featuring contributions by artists and writers, this digital publication was made ... Read more

    $7.28 USD

  • The Anime Machine

    A Media Theory of Animation

    by Thomas Lamarre ...
    Despite the longevity of animation and its significance within the history of cinema, film theorists have focused on live-action motion pictures and largely ignored hand-drawn and computer-generated movies. Thomas Lamarre contends that the history, techniques, and complex visual language of animation, particularly Japanese animation, demands serious and sustained engagement, and in The Anime ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Postmodernism For Beginners

    by Jim Powell ...
    Series series For Beginners
    If you are like most people, you’re not sure what Postmodernism is. And if this were like most books on the subject, it probably wouldn’t tell you.Besides what a few grumpy critics claim, Postmodernism is not a bunch of meaningless intellectual mind games. On the contrary, it is a reaction to the most profound spiritual and philosophical crisis of our time – the failure of the Enlightenment.Jim ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Interpreting Anime

    by Christopher Bolton ...
    For students, fans, and scholars alike, this wide-ranging primer on anime employs a panoply of critical approachesWell-known through hit movies like Spirited Away, Akira, and Ghost in the Shell, anime has a long history spanning a wide range of directors, genres, and styles. Christopher Bolton’s Interpreting Anime is a thoughtful, carefully organized introduction to Japanese animation for anyone ... Read more

    $17.99 USD