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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
I - PROSE SCIENCE FICTION
Chapter 1. - Horror and Machines in Prewar Japan
The Mechanical Uncanny
The Automata in Dogura magura
The Uncanny Revisited
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 2. - Has the Empire Sunk Yet?
Kayama Shigeru: Missing Links and Misty Islands
Honda Ishirō: Monsters and Sacrifices
Abe Kōbō: No Man’s Land
Komatsu Sakyō: Has the Empire Sunk Yet?
New Dimensions, Old Dimensions
Notes
Chapter 3. - Alien Spaces and Alien Bodies in Japanese Women’s Science Fiction
Women’s Utopias
The Transformation of Women into Monsters
The Alteration of Masculinity
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 4. - SF as Hamlet
Notes
Chapter 5. - Tsutsui Yasutaka and the Multimedia Performance of Authorship
The Cybernetic Author as Despot: Gaspard of the Morning
The Multimedia Cacophony of Silence: “Automatic Police” and the “Pseudo-Event”
The Author as Multimedia Performer
Notes
II - SCIENCE FICTION ANIMATION
Chapter 6. - When the Machines Stop
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Serial Experiments: Lain
Notes
Chapter 7. - The Mecha’s Blind Spot
Screening Reality
A Shooting War or a Shooting Script?
The Machine’s Blind Spot
Anime’s Body: Medium or Mechanism?
Notes
Chapter 8. - Words of Alienation, Words of Flight
“Wago,” “Kango,” and “Gairaigo”
Functions of Loanwords
Characteristics of Loanwords
Macross Plus
Loanwords in Macross Plus
Akira
Loanwords in Akira
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 9. - Sex and the Single Cyborg
Notes
Chapter 10. - Invasion of the Woman Snatchers
Media Meta-Life and Lively Undeath
The Phantoms of the Cinema
Cinematic Animism
Movement beside Itself
The Emergence of A-Life
Ecologies of the Uncanny: Representing Life for A-Living
The Vanishing Lady’s Disappearing Act
Abducted by Science Fiction: The Woman as Perpetual Ribotype
Return of the Vanishing Lady
Notes
Chapter 11. - Otaku Sexuality
Otaku Sexuality
Who Are the Otaku?
The Particulars of Yaoi Culture
Asymmetrical Sexuality
The Origins of Asymmetry
The Issue of Shota
Fictionality and Possession
The Otaku as Creator
The Development of Otaku Expression
The Space of the Superflat
Notes
Afterword.
PUBLICATION HISTORY
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
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