Intercultural Crossovers, Transcultural Flows: Manga/Comics
Intercultural Crossovers, Transcultural Flows: Manga/Comics (Global Manga Studies, vol. 2) Jaqueline Berndt, ed. Kyoto Seika University International Manga Research Center 2012 Table of Contents Introduction 1 Jaqueline BERNDT 1: Particularities of boys’ manga in the early 21st century: How NARUTO 9 differs from DRAGON BALL ITŌ Gō 2. Subcultural entrepreneurs, path dependencies and fan reactions: The 17 case of NARUTO in Hungary Zoltan KACSUK 3 .The NARUTO fan generation in Poland: An attempt at contextualization 33 Radosław BOLAŁEK 4. Transcultural Hybridization in Home-Grown German Manga 49 Paul M. MALONE 5. On the depiction of love between girls across cultures: comparing the 61 U.S.- American webcomic YU+ME: dream and the yuri manga “Maria- sama ga miteru” Verena MASER 6. Gekiga as a site of intercultural exchange: Tatsumi Yoshihiro’s A 73 Drifting Life Roman ROSENBAUM 7. The Eye of the Image: Transcultural characteristics and intermediality 93 in Urasawa Naoki’s transcultural narrative 20th Century Boys Felix GIESA & Jens MEINRENKEN 8. Cool Premedialisation as Symbolic Capital of Innovation: On 107 Intercultural Intermediality between Comics, Literature, Film, Manga, and Anime Thomas BECKER 9. Reading (and looking at) Mariko Parade-A methodological suggestion 119 for understanding contemporary graphic narratives Maaheen AHMED Epilogue 135 Steffi RICHTER Introduction Kyoto Seika University’s International Manga Research Center is supposed to organize one international conference per year. The first was held at the Kyoto International Manga Museum in December 2009,1 and the second at the Cultural Institute of Japan in Cologne, Germany, September 30 - October 2, 2010. This volume assembles about half of the then-given papers, mostly in revised version.
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