I just received a copy of Tze-Yue G. (“Gigi”) Hu’s long-awaited Frames of Anime: Culture and Image-Building recently published by Hong Kong University Press, and distributed in North America by University of Washington Press ($28.00 paperback and $55.00 hardcover). Gigi, who teaches Asian Studies at the University of Oklahoma’s School of International and Area Studies, [...]
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Frames of Anime
May 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Anime, Books, Japan
Tags: Frames of Anime: Culture and Image-Building·Tze-Yue G. Hu
Japanese Edition of Astro Boy and Anime Come to the Americas
April 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Anime, Books, Japan, Television animation
The Japanese-language edition of Astro Boy and Anime Come to the Americas, by Fred Ladd (with my assistance) has been published by NTT in a translation by Kumi Kaoru, the author of two books on Hayao Miyazaki. The Japanese title is Anime ga Anime ni naru made (How the Japanese Cartoon Became “Anime”’). Kumi-san emailed me [...]
Tags: Astro Boy and Anime Come to the Americas·Fred Ladd·Harvey Deneroff·Kumi Kaoru
Astro Boy and Anime Come to the Americas Now Available on Kindle
December 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Anime, Books, Harvey Deneroff
Astro Boy and Anime Come to the Americas, Fred Ladd’s personal history of his involvement with producing the American versions of such early Japanese animated TV series as Astro Boy and Gigantor, has now been made available as an Amazon’s Kindle Book for only $9.99, which you can order here. (The original print edition is, [...]
Tags: Astro Boy and Anime Come to the Americas: An Insiders View of the Birth of a Pop Culture Phenomenon·Fred Ladd·Harvey Deneroff
Astro Boy and Anime Come to the Americas Is Now Available
December 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Books, Japan, Television animation
Though the official publication date is March 2009, Astro Boy and Anime Come to the Americas: An Insider’s View of the Birth of a Pop Culture Phenomenon, Fred Ladd’s personal history of anime and his involvement in it, is now available and is priced at $35.00. (I am the second author, though save for writing [...]
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Émile Cohl: L’inventeur du dessin animé
June 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Books, DVDs, History and criticism
Currently, there is an almost total lack of films by Émile Cohl, the pioneer French animator, who also worked in the United States, available in on DVD; I know of two DVDs that I that have his seminal Fantasmagorie (1908), which is often seen as the first fully animated film to explore the artistic possibilities [...]
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Book Note: Fred Ladd’s Astro Boy and Anime Come to the Americas
June 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Anime, Books
Astro Boy and Anime Come to the Americas: An Insider’s View of the Birth of a Pop Culture Phenomenon by Fred Ladd, with assistance from myself, has now been officially announced by McFarland, which is publishing it on November 30th. (It is also available for pre-order at Amazon.) The book is Fred’s story of his [...]
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