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 Anime & Manga   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Written for fans, culture watchers, and perplexed outsiders, this is an engaging tour of the anime universe, from its roots in traditional Japanese culture and art, its major themes.
Summary: Included are over 2,000 Japanese animation films--from today's Pokemon, Tenchi Muyo, and Sailor Moon to the classic Tetsuwan Atomu (Astro Boy) and little-known artistic gems like the anime life of Mozart.
The first book-length discussion of Japanese animation to examine its historical roots and the reactions of overseas audiences.
www.imcpl.org /adult_path_manga.htm   (1263 words)

  
 Midnight Eye feature: Japanese Anime and the Animated Cartoon
Regardless of the rapidly growing numbers of Japanese animated videos at Blockbuster and Wal-Mart over the last 15 years, this "breakthrough" is something of an exaggeration, and the implication that it's proof of a magical cultural force working independent of U.S. influence and economics raises big questions to say the least.
Unfortunately for Momotaro his animated dreams didn't come true, and when the postwar commercial cell-animated film industry-granddaddy of the "anime" we know today-developed in the shadows of Disney releases and Occupation censorship, it was instantly and explicitly international.
The golden years of Japanese animation were sparkling with international sales and co-productions, and American companies left their fingerprints everywhere, translating, editing and packaging anime for the world.
www.midnighteye.com /features/animated_cartoon.shtml   (1509 words)

  
 Annotated Italian Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The trilogy exhaustively analyzes the history and economics of the passionate marriage between Comic Book Literature and live action Cinema, from the 1930s and 1940s cliffhanger serials to the scores of Mexican, Japanese, Turkish, Indian, French and Italian low-budget cult classics of the 60's and '70s up to the post-Superman, post-Burton, post-Singer Hollywood blockbuster adaptations.
On the one hand, on animation as a rich artistic expression of contemporaneity and as powerful medium; on the other hand, on animated film as vehicle of diversified and educational contents suitable for a wide multi-generational audience.
Histories, formats, techniques, styles and works of animated film are explained through a clear language that does not renounce to an analytical outlook, thanks to accurated forays into the fields of pedagogy, media sociology, film critics.
www.animechecklist.net /itbibliography.html   (1804 words)

  
 Site Map   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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animation.mybookcenter.com /sitemap.shtml   (3582 words)

  
 Japanese Animation on the World Wide Web   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
an association of professional Japanese animators interested in animation around the world
at Moc's Animation Page (this is a rough, incomplete translation of a Japanese history)
this site is mainly devoted to manga creators but does have some information about animated works based on manga, it is mainly useful for the background information it provides
www.public.iastate.edu /~rllew/anlinks1.html   (459 words)

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