Comics and the Origins of Manga : : A Revisionist History / / Eike Exner.

Japanese comics, commonly known as manga, are a global sensation. Critics, scholars, and everyday readers have often viewed this artform through an Orientalist framework, treating manga as the exotic antithesis to American and European comics. In reality, the history of manga is deeply intertwined w...

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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.) :; 10 color, 50 b-w images
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • A Note on Images
  • Introduction
  • Prologue: The Historical Origins and Changing Meaning of “Manga” up to 1923
  • 1 “Popular in Society at Large”: The First Talking Manga
  • 2 “Listen Vunce!”: The Audiovisual Revolution in Graphic Narrative
  • 3 When Krazy Kat Spoke Japanese: Japan’s Massive Importation of Foreign Audiovisual Comics
  • 4 From Asō Yutaka to Tezuka Osamu: How Manga Made in Japan Adopted the Form of Audiovisual Comics
  • Epilogue: The Myth of Manga as a “Traditional Mode of Expression”
  • Appendix: List of Foreign Comics in Japan, 1908–1945
  • Brief Chronology
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index