This reading list is in progress. Also, you definitely don’t need to read all of these. But if you are so inclined………………<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Deborah Levitt, The Animatic Apparatus: Animation, Vitality, and the Futures of the Evan Calder Williams, Shard Cinema<\/em>. 2017 (<– read this if you feel strangely captivated by the ubiquitous scenes of glass shattering in slow motion in movies, also if you want academic writing with a poetic touch)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thomas Lamarre, The Anime Machine: A Media Theory <\/em>of Animation. 2009 (<– if it’s dense, bear with it. Lamarre writes with the most touching empathy and generosity. absolutely phenomenal book. Ghibli and Chobits come up a lot.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ian Condry, The soul of anime: Collaborative creativity and Japan’s Media Success Story<\/em>. 2013 (<– read this if you are curious about animation production, also if you’re into Evangelion)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Patrick W. Galbraith, Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan<\/em>. 2019 (<– read this if you want to empathise in ways that seemed impossible before, for complex gender feelings, inter-dimensional relationships, and also for a moving history of Akihabara, Tokyo’s weeb district)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Patrick W. Galbraith, The Ethics of Affect: Lines and Life in a Tokyo Neighborhood.<\/em> 2021 (<– read this if you want more of the above)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ito Mizuko, Okabe Daisuke, and Tsuji Izumi, eds. Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World<\/em>. 2012 (<– read for insight into how subcultures in Japan conduct themselves, subculture oriented infrastructure ie. doujin conventions; read if you wonder about otaku who are not men; all around a great English language resource; all available on jstor<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Azuma Hiroki, Otaku: Japan’s database animals<\/em>. 2001 (transl. 2009) (<– read this because it’s influential and at its heart quite potent, but it is not without faults. full of entertaining graphs.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n …… for some more references, quotes and general writing, you can also look through my notes which are shared on my website<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This reading list is in progress. Also, you definitely don’t need to read all of these. But if you are so inclined……………… Deborah Levitt, The Animatic Apparatus: Animation, Vitality, and the Futures of theImage. 2018 (<– read this if you … Continue reading
Image<\/em>. 2018 (<– read this if you want something short but effective; also if you like Ghost in the shell<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n