Tag: film studies

March 16, 2016 · 0 comments

Books: Anime Fan Communities

Books: Anime Fan Communities

Andrew Osmond on a study of transcultural flows and frictions Animation travels. It’s good at it, often better than live-action. Animation is amenable to dubbing and localising, and its foreign origins often go unnoticed, at least by child viewers. Perfect Blue director Satoshi Kon put it simply. When he was growing up in Hokkaido, “I […]

December 13, 2015 · 2 comments

Anime Studies: Ten Books To Own

Anime Studies: Ten Books To Own

By Andrew Osmond. So you love Japanese animation, and want to make yourself an expert. Of course you use Google and Wikipedia to broaden your knowledge, but web sources are reliably unreliable, especially when discussing a medium rather older than the internet. Sometimes there’s no alternative to hitting the books.

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