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  • Eclipsed Horizon: The Spire Awakens

    by Michael Raines ...
    Eclipsed Horizon: The Spire Awakens plunges readers into a world on the brink of cosmic upheaval. When a mysterious celestial event awakens an ancient spire buried deep within a fractured land, a reluctant scholar and a battle-scarred soldier are drawn together by visions of an impending eclipse that could reshape reality itself. As forgotten powers rise and shadows lengthen, humanity must ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Culture of the Sound Image in Prewar Japan

    Edited by Michael Raine, Johan Nordström ...
    This collection of essays explores the development of electronic sound recording in Japanese cinema, radio, and popular music to illuminate the interrelationship of aesthetics, technology, and cultural modernity in prewar Japan. Putting the cinema at the center of a ‘culture of the sound image’, it restores complexity to a media transition that is often described simply as slow and reluctant. In ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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  • The Anime Art of Hayao Miyazaki

    by Dani Cavallaro ...
    The thought-provoking, aesthetically pleasing animated films of Hayao Miyazaki attract audiences well beyond the director's native Japan. Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away were critically acclaimed upon U.S. release, and the earlier My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service have found popularity with Americans on DVD. This critical study of Miyazaki's work begins with an analysis of the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • A Brief History of Manga

    by Helen McCarthy ...
    Manga is more than a genre in the comics field: it is a vital creative medium in its own right, with hundreds of millions of readers worldwide, a host of graphic styles, and a rich history now spanning seven decades.Now for the first time, that history is told by an award-winning expert in the field. Covering topics from Akira to Mazinger Z, this book is fully illustrated throughout, and photos of ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • God of Comics

    Osamu Tezuka and the Creation of Post-World War II Manga

    by Natsu Onoda Power ...
    Series series Great Comics Artists Series
    Cartoonist Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989) is the single most important figure in Japanese post-World War II comics. During his four-decade career, Tezuka published more than 150,000 pages of comics, produced animation films, wrote essays and short fiction, and earned a Ph.D. in medicine. Along with creating the character Astro Boy (Mighty Atom in Japan), he is best known for establishing story comics as ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • What Is Japanese Cinema?

    A History

    by Yomota Inuhiko ...
    Translated by Professor Philip Kaffen ...
    What might Godzilla and Kurosawa have in common? What, if anything, links Ozu’s sparse portraits of domestic life and the colorful worlds of anime? In What Is Japanese Cinema? Yomota Inuhiko provides a concise and lively history of Japanese film that shows how cinema tells the story of Japan’s modern age.Discussing popular works alongside auteurist masterpieces, Yomota considers films in light of ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Ghibliotheque

    The Unofficial Guide to the Movies of Studio Ghibli

    by Jake Cunningham, Michael Leader ...
    Revised and updated - includes Miyazaki's new masterpiece, The Boy and the Heron.Explore the films of magical Japanese animation masters Studio Ghibli in this film-by-film celebration for newcomers and long-time fans alike.Ghibliotheque reviews each Studio Ghibli movie in turn, in the voice of expert and newcomer. The lively text delves into production details, themes, key scenes and general ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Tokyo in Transit

    Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road

    by Alisa Freedman ...
    Increased use of mass transportation in the early twentieth century enabled men and women of different social classes to interact in ways they had not before. Using a cultural studies approach that combines historical research and literary analysis, author Alisa Freedman investigates fictional, journalistic, and popular culture depictions of how mass transportation changed prewar Tokyo's social ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Works of Hayao Miyazaki

    The Japanese Animation Master

    by Gael Berton ...
    Through this study of Hayao Miyazaki's universe, discover the major influence of the Japanese animation master, whose works have marked Japanese animation and the world of cinema.Through his creativity, technical wizardry and talent for storytelling, Hayao Miyazaki has left an indelible mark on Japanese animation and world cinema. The animation master has been able to create magical worlds for a ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Mechademia 1

    Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga

    Edited by Frenchy Lunning ...
    After decades in which American popular culture dominated global media and markets, Japanese popular culture—primarily manga and anime, but also toys, card and video games, and fashion—has exploded into a worldwide phenomenon. From Pokémon and the Power Rangers to Paranoia Agent and Princess Mononoke, Japanese popular culture is consumed by an eager and exponentially increasing audience of youths, ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Japanese Visual Culture

    Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime

    by Mark W. MacWilliams ...
    Born of Japan's cultural encounter with Western entertainment media, manga (comic books or graphic novels) and anime (animated films) are two of the most universally recognized forms of contemporary mass culture. Because they tell stories through visual imagery, they vault over language barriers. Well suited to electronic transmission and distributed by Japan's globalized culture industry, they ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

  • The Worlds of Hayao Miyazaki

    The Influences and Inspiration Behind the Iconic Films

    by Nicolas Rapold ...
    **'Would sit well on any Ghibli fan's shelf.' – Empire Magazine'A beautifully designed and elegantly written celebration of one of animation’s most influential auteurs.' – Cinemas OnlineExplore the inspirations behind the work of the legendary Hayao Miyazaki, one of animated cinema’s all-time great creators.**Often called the godfather of animation, Miyazaki is able to imagine and populate worlds ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD