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 [...]

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 [...]

Japanese entertainment thunderbolt

The trumpets can start ringing, a new born has joined the increasingly fast-growing body of scholarly works focusing on the spread of Japanese entertainment and its success around the world!
In the wake of the many Manga Network projects, several publications are on the line and Marco Pellitteri’s book entitled “Il drago e la Saetta. Modelli, [...]

Print media R.I.P?

I just received a mail from the mailing list of the EASA Media Anthropology Network about an article in the New Jersey.com on the potential disappearance of books and alongside, of literacy: Reading, R.I.P.? by Howard Gardner, Professor of cognitive psychology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. I thought that this would make a [...]

Manga garnering momentum in the academia

What a pleasant surprise! Another collection of academic essays on mangas and animes as actors of the global criss-crossing movements of various types of popular culture and commercial products.
Japanese Visual Culture: Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime, as it is entitled, will be available for sale starting on 15 January 2008 [...]