Did you say “Krazy”?

And one more! Yes, one more book on animation and comics, including animes and mangas to add to your piling up reading list. These last two or three years, we have witnessed a flurry of works from a variety of disciplines on visual popular culture, especially on mangas and animes. This was somewhat long overdue [...]

Festival International du Film d’Animation d’Annecy 2008

Samedi se terminait le 32ème Festival International du Film d’Animation d’Annecy sur la victoire de “Sita sings the Blues”, un long-métrage de l’Américaine Nina Paley. Evidemment, cette année encore, je n’ai pas pu me rendre à ce festival, coincée comme je le suis par les études (et incidemment, le rhume des foins). J’espère vraiment pouvoir [...]

Interview Retranscription

I’m now in the process of retranscribing the interview I was able to record at JapAniManga Night. As anyone who has done interviews in the past knows, it is of course a difficult and tedious task. But it is also extremely interesting for several reasons, which I haven’t always seen outlined in the method books [...]

First fieldwork, first mission

The general fun of fieldwork:
Alright, here is the first part of the account from my week-end at JapAniManga Night. I’m sorry, I can’t put it all in one post, so I hope you’ll be able to keep up with me as I organize my thoughts and notes. The first part is more a general assessment [...]

Update on dissertation progress #2

It has arrived!!
My 3 copies of “Il drago e la saeta” have arrived this morning! Marco Pellitteri has very kindly sent me these so that I can present them to people who should be able to help me get this new important contribution to research on globalized Japanese popular culture translated in French and maybe [...]