The past 15 years have seen a boom in academic studies of anime, ranging from thematic and cultural analysis such as Susan J. Napier¡¯s ¡°Anime from Akira to Howl¡¯s Moving Castle¡± to formal theory based on technical processes and the nature of two-dimensional images such as Thomas Lamarre¡¯s ¡°The Anime Machine.¡± Alistair D. Swale¡¯s ¡°Anime Aesthetics: Japanese Animation and the ¡®Post-Cinematic¡¯ Imagination¡± covers even more ambitious ground. It asks: how is anime ¡°art¡°?
Anime Aesthetics, by Alistair D. Swale
176 pages
Palgrave Macmillan, Nonfiction.
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