Abstract
The catalogue of The Citi Exhibition: Manga? ??, held at the British Museum from the 23 May to the 26 August 2019, is a mix between a “coffee table book” with coloured illustrations and detailed panels, and a reader’s digest about manga written by scholars and the curators of the exhibition. It provides a complete initiation to manga, its creative process, formats and genres. Edited by two of the three curators, Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere and Matsuba Ryoko, the six sections of the book mirror the exhibition zones. The first one shows the manga production from drawings to the final book through interviews with artists, editors and publishers. The second section examines [...]
Highlights
ISSUE 1 – Between Texts and Images: Mutual Images of Japan and Europe ISSUE 2 – Japanese Pop Cultures in Europe Today: Economic Challenges, Mediated Notions, Future Opportunities ISSUE 3 – Visuality and Fictionality of Japan and Europe in a Cross-Cultural Framework ISSUE 4 – Japan and Asia: Representations of Selfness and Otherness ISSUE 5 – Politics, arts and pop culture of Japan in local and global contexts
Mutual Images is an academic journal: it is aimed to the scholarly analysis of ideas and facts related to literary, social, media-related, anthropological, and artistic phenomena in the Humanities
The last section focuses on the influence of manga on modern artworks, American graphic novels and anime
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ISSUE 1 – Between Texts and Images: Mutual Images of Japan and Europe ISSUE 2 – Japanese Pop Cultures in Europe Today: Economic Challenges, Mediated Notions, Future Opportunities ISSUE 3 – Visuality and Fictionality of Japan and Europe in a Cross-Cultural Framework ISSUE 4 – Japan and Asia: Representations of Selfness and Otherness ISSUE 5 – Politics, arts and pop culture of Japan in local and global contexts. As an Open Access Journal, Mutual Images provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
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