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 [...]

Media Technologies::Thoughts#1

Originally, I thought of this blog as a place where I could report on the progress of my work and share some thoughts with you, the lucky visitor. However, for several reasons, one being that it is actually harder to write about one’s thinking on a blog, I haven’t been able to really achieve this [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Reading “The Global Transformations Reader”

Quick foreword:
Here is my first review of a book, from which I read several chapters for my Ph.D. research. This is a sort of commented summary of my reading, outlining the theoretical highlights that I thought would be important for my own dissertation. This means that there is a strong bias in it, shaped by [...]