[audiobook] Tom Stoppard's Arcadia (Modern Theatre Guides) by John Fleming in Arts-Photography

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Known as the ldquo;Walt Disney of Japanrdquo; it is no surprise that Tezuka Osamu is still the best-known manga creator to Western fans. Current scholarship has uncovered the profound complexity and ambiguity not only of his work but of the man; the artist; and his lifemdash;dismantling his position as the god of manga.Contributors to this volume of Mechademiamdash;a series devoted to creative and critical work on anime; manga; and the fan artsmdash;analyze Tezuka and his complicated approaches toward life and nonlife on earth; as well as his effect on the lives of other manga artists. Using essays and reprints of Japanese manga on Tezuka; this book questions his influence and attitudes toward the nonhuman; evolutionary theory; the aesthetic lineage of contemporary manga; incipient feminism in the reinscription of the nonhuman feminine; the sexual politics of manga bodies; the origins of the moe culture; and the styles of didacticism revealing the digressions of insects and classical modes; among others.The authors offer varying perspectives on the historical transformations in production; distribution; and reception that gradually integrated and differentiated an overlapping series of markets and readerships in the postwar era. Divided into four sections that explore different ldquo;livesrdquo;mdash;ldquo;Nonhuman Life;rdquo; ldquo;Media Life;rdquo; ldquo;A Life in Manga;rdquo; and ldquo;Everyday Liferdquo;mdash;Mechademia 8 serves as a prehistory of the impersonal politics of the present while tracing Tezukarsquo;s legacy. Contributors: Akatsuka Fujio; Anno Moyoko; Linda H. Chance; U of Pennsylvania; Jonathan Clements; Hideaki Fujiki; Nagoya U; Patrick W. Galbraith; Verina Gfader; U of Huddersfield; Alicia Gibson; G. Clinton Godart; USC; Yorimitsu Hashimoto; Osaka U; Ryan Holmberg; Hikari Hori; Columbia U; Mary A. Knighton; College of William and Mary; Thomas Lamarre; McGill U; Christine L. Marran; U of Minnesota; Natsume Fusanosuke; Gakushuin U; Tokyo; ÅŒtsuka Eiji; Kobe Design U; Baryon Tensor Posadas; Renato Rivera Rusca; Meiji U; Frederik L. Schodt; Marc Steinberg; Concordia U; Tezuka Osamu; Toshiya Ueno; Wako U; Tokyo; Matthew Young.