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Interpreting Anime This page intentionally left blank Interpreting Anime Christopher Bolton University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis London An earlier version of chapter 1 was previously published as “From Ground Zero to Degree Zero: Akira from Origin to Oblivion,” Mechademia 9 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014), 295–315. An earlier version of chapter 2 was previously published as “The Mecha’s Blind Spot: Patlabor 2 and the Phenomenology of Anime,” Science Fiction Studies 29, no. 3 (November 2002): 453– 74, and in Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fictions from Origins to Anime, ed. Christopher Bolton, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., and Takayuki Tatsumi (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007), 123– 47. An earlier version of chapter 3 was pre- viously published as “From Wooden Cyborgs to Celluloid Souls: Mechanical Bodies in Anime and Japanese Puppet Theater,” positions: east asia cul- tures critique 10, no. 3 (Winter 2002): 729–71. An earlier version of chap- ter 4 was previously published as “Anime Horror and Its Audience: 3x3 Eyes and Vampire Princess Miyu,” in Japanese Horror Cinema, ed. Jay McRoy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005), 66– 76. An earlier version of chapter 6 was previously published as “The Quick and the Undead: Visual and Political Dynamics in Blood: The Last Vampire,” Mechademia 2 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007), 125– 42. Copyright 2018 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior writ- ten permission of the publisher.
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