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Beautiful Fighting Girl

Beautiful Fighting Girl

by Saito Tamaki and Hiroki Azuma
Hardback
Publication Date: 16/03/2011

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From Cutie Honey and Sailor Moon to Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, the worlds of Japanese anime and manga teem with prepubescent girls toting deadly weapons. Sometimes overtly sexual, always intensely cute, the beautiful fighting girl has been both hailed as a feminist icon and condemned as a symptom of the objectification of young women in Japanese society. In Beautiful Fighting Girl, Saito Tamaki offers a far more sophisticated and convincing interpretation of this alluring and capable figure. Featuring extensive interviews with Japanese and American otaku, a comprehensive genealogy of the beautiful fighting girl, and an analysis of the American outsider artist Henry Darger Beautiful Fighting Girl was hugely influential when first published in Japan, and it remains a key text in the study of manga, anime, and otaku culture.
ISBN:
9780816654505
9780816654505
Category:
The arts: general issues
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
16-03-2011
Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
248
Dimensions (mm):
216x140x20mm

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