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Cartoon Cultures

2010 Popular culture
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Release : 2010
Genre : Popular culture
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Book Rating : 681/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Cartoon Cultures by : Anne Cooper-Chen

Download or read book Cartoon Cultures written by Anne Cooper-Chen. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1993 to 2003, exports of Japan's cartoon arts tripled in value, to $12.5 billion. Fan phenomena around the world - in U.S. malls, teen girls flock to purchase the latest Fruits Basket graphic novel; in Hungary, young people gather for a summer «cosplay» (costume dress-up) event - illustrate the global popularity of manga and anime. Drawing on extensive research and more than 100 original interviews, Anne Cooper-Chen explains how and why the un-Disney has penetrated nearly every corner of the planet. This book uses concepts such as cultural proximity, uses and gratifications, and cultural variability to explain cross-cultural adaptations in a broad international approach. It emphasizes that overseas acceptance has surprised the Japanese, who create manga and anime primarily for a domestic audience. Including some sobering facts about the future of the industry, the book highlights how overseas enthusiasm could actually save a domestic industry that may decline in the contracting and graying country of its birth. Designed for courses covering international mass media, media and globalization and introduction to Japanese culture, the book is written primarily for undergraduates, and includes many student-friendly features such as a glossary, timeline and source list.

The Short Book

2007 History
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Release : 2007
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 510/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Short Book by : Zachary Kanin

Download or read book The Short Book written by Zachary Kanin. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humorous anecdotes and facts discuss what it means to be short, including the reasons behind it; famous short celebrities, criminals, and superheroes; common nicknames; and how to relate to tall people.

Saturday Morning Fever

1998-12-15 Performing Arts
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Release : 1998-12-15
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 961/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Saturday Morning Fever by : Timothy Burke

Download or read book Saturday Morning Fever written by Timothy Burke. This book was released on 1998-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From "Hong Kong Phooey" to "Jonny Quest", from Sid and Marty Krofft to Hanna-Barbera, brothers Kevin and Timothy Burke, who as kids watched plenty of television, celebrate all that made Saturday morning TV great. 158 photos, 8 in color.

Animating Culture

1993 Performing Arts
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Release : 1993
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 494/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Animating Culture by : Eric Loren Smoodin

Download or read book Animating Culture written by Eric Loren Smoodin. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long considered "children's entertainment" by audiences and popular media, Hollywood animation has received little serious attention. Eric Smoodin's Animating Culture is the first and only book to thoroughly analyze the animated short film. Usually running about seven or eight minutes, cartoons were made by major Hollywood studios--such as MGM, Warner Bros., and Disney--and shown at movie theaters along with a newsreel and a feature-length film. Smoodin explores animated shorta and the system that mass-produced them. How were cartoons exhibited in theaters? How did they tell their stories? Who did they tell them to? What did they say about race, class, and gender? How were cartoons related to the feature films they accompanied on the evening's bill of fare? What were the social functions of cartoon stars like Donald Duck and Minnie Mouse? Smoodin argues that cartoons appealed to a wide audience--not just children--and did indeed contribute to public debate about political matters. He examines issues often ignored in discussions of animated film--issues such as social control in the U.S. army's "Private Snafu" cartoons, and sexuality and race in the "sites" of Betty Boop's body and the cartoon harem. Smoodin's analysis of the multiple discourses embedded in a variety of cartoons reveals the complex and sometimes contradictory ways that animation dealt with class relations, labor, imperialism, and censorship. His discussion of Disney and the Disney Studio's close ties with the U.S. government forces us to rethink the place of the cartoon in political and cultural life. Smoodin reveals the complex relationship between cartoons and the Hollywood studio system, and between cartoons and their audiences.

How About Never—Is Never Good for You?

2014-03-25 Comics & Graphic Novels
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Release : 2014-03-25
Genre : Comics & Graphic Novels
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Book Rating : 918/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis How About Never—Is Never Good for You? by : Bob Mankoff

Download or read book How About Never—Is Never Good for You? written by Bob Mankoff. This book was released on 2014-03-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoir in cartoons by the longtime cartoon editor of The New Yorker People tell Bob Mankoff that as the cartoon editor of The New Yorker he has the best job in the world. Never one to beat around the bush, he explains to us, in the opening of this singular, delightfully eccentric book, that because he is also a cartoonist at the magazine he actually has two of the best jobs in the world. With the help of myriad images and his funniest, most beloved cartoons, he traces his love of the craft all the way back to his childhood, when he started doing funny drawings at the age of eight. After meeting his mother, we follow his unlikely stints as a high-school basketball star, draft dodger, and sociology grad student. Though Mankoff abandoned the study of psychology in the seventies to become a cartoonist, he recently realized that the field he abandoned could help him better understand the field he was in, and here he takes up the psychology of cartooning, analyzing why some cartoons make us laugh and others don't. He allows us into the hallowed halls of The New Yorker to show us the soup-to-nuts process of cartoon creation, giving us a detailed look not only at his own work, but that of the other talented cartoonists who keep us laughing week after week. For desert, he reveals the secrets to winning the magazine's caption contest. Throughout How About Never--Is Never Good for You?, we see his commitment to the motto "Anything worth saying is worth saying funny."

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