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.)

Suggested keywords to use when searching for books:

Genres

•   Disaster films
     Fantasy Films
      Horror Films
        Science Fiction Films
        war films

 

Themes

•   Apocalypse in films
    Atomic bomb in films
     Atomic bomb victims in films
      Nuclear warfare in films
       Psychic trauma in films
        Utopias in films
        

 

A few sample titles at Tisch:

• A Guide to Apocalyptic Cinema.
• Apocalyptic Dread: American Film at the Turn of the Millennium.
• Atomic Bomb Cinema: the Apocalyptic Imagination on Film.
• Crime and the imaginary of disaster: post-apocalyptic fictions and the crisis of social order
• Disaster cinema in historical perspective: mediations of the sublime
• Disaster movies: the cinema of catastrophe
• Encountering the impossible: the fantastic in Hollywood fantasy cinema
• Hibakusha Cinema: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Nuclear Image in Japanese Film.
• Imag(in)ing the war in Japan: representing and responding to trauma in postwar literature and film.
• Introduction to Japanese Horror Film.

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