Anime Through the Looking Glass: Treasures of Japanese Animation
by Nathalie Bittinger
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This dynamic and wide-ranging book explores eighty key themes of the genre, from wars to natural disasters, nature to ecology, childhood to magic, dystopias to fables. It looks at more than one hundred masterpieces of Japanese animation, including Akira, Ghost in the Shell, One Piece, Princess Mononoke, Grave of the Fireflies and Howl's Moving Castle, to show how practitioners consistently balance tradition with modernity and how anime's distinct style has influenced other forms of media show more such as video games, comic books and live-action films. show lessTags
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- Nonfiction, Art & Design, Graphic Novels & Comics
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- 791.43340952 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Movies, TV, Video Motion pictures, radio, television, podcasting Motion pictures Types of presentation {class specific films in 791.437} Animated films
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- NC1766 .J3 .B58 — Fine Arts Drawing. Design. Illustration Drawing. Design. Illustration Pictorial humor, caricature, etc.
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