Prof. Susan Napier

• Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: experiencing contemporary Japanese animation.
• From Impressionism to anime: Japan as fantasy and fan cult in the mind of the West.
• Hybrid identities: Ôe, Japan, and the West
• The Subversion of Modernity: the Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature
• Escape from the Wasteland: Romanticism and Realism in the Works of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo
• "Meet Me on the Other Side: Strategies of Otherness in Modern Japanese Fiction" in Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature: A Critical Approach.
• "When Godzilla Speaks" in Godzillas Footsteps.
• "Matter Out of Place: Carnival and Cultural Recovery in Miyazaki Hayaoj's Spritied Away"
• Miyazakiworld: a life in art

• “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Enjoy Being an Anime Expert” (TEDx Talk)
• The biggest anime film of all time comes to the US (on Public Radio International)
• Tapestries of Apocalypse: From Angers to 'Nausicaa' and Beyond (Audio)

Evaluating Information

I.Bibliographies

• Cinema and media studies (annotated bibliographies)

II. JumboSearch for Books     

Note: WorldWide Libraries (also known as WorldCat is still a better place to get a fuller picture of  books on a topic.)

Sample browses for books:on various topics:

• "Animated films -- Japan"
• "Animated films -- United States"
• "Miyazaki, Hayao, 1941-
• "Walt Disney Productions"

 

• "Captivity in films"
• "Heroines in films"
• "Masculinity in films"
• "Nature in films"
• "Race and Racism in films"

 

A few sample titles at Tisch:

• Disney and philosophy : truth, trust, and a little bit of pixie dust
• The Disneyfication of animals
• Handsome heroes & vile villains : masculinity in Disney's feature animation
• Hayao Miyazaki
• Joe Hisaishi's soundtrack for My neighbor Totoro
• Miyazakiworld: a life in art
• Music in Disney's animated features : Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to The jungle book
• Starting point : 1979-1996

III. Journal and Magazine Articles 

A. All subjects

• JSTOR
• Project Muse

 

B. Film and Related Subjects

• Communication & Mass Media
• Film & Television Literature Index
• Screen Studies Collection (more foreign language publication)

• Art & Architecture Source
• Bibliography of Asian Studies
• Historical Abstracts
• LGBTQ+ Source
• MLA International Bibliography (Literature, folklore and related studies.)
• Women's Studies