內容簡介
通過對一些重要的日本動畫作品、工作室、動畫師和動畫理論的細致分析，本書定義了日本動畫的視覺特征以及那些特定的、“動畫性”效果的具體意義。不同於從文化內涵、創作理念、敘事目的、內容主旨進入文本的研究，作者從技術的角度出發，將動畫作為一種獨特的運動影像來考察，通過其生產方式和技術、創作者之間的互動，揭示出動畫本身是如何“處理”技術問題的，或者說，人們是如何運用動畫的思維方式來思考技術問題的。為了闡明這一理論的實際意義,作者在書中詳盡地考察了一係列重要的動畫作品，包括宮崎駿的《天空之城》、庵野秀明的《藍寶石之謎》和改編自 CLAMP 漫畫原作的《人形電腦天使心》，清晣地脈絡層層遞進，用獨特的方式重新講述了日本動畫的戰後發展歷程。本書引用德勒茲、伽達利、海德格爾、西蒙頓等人的技術理論，適當借鑒電影理論、精神分析和女性主義學說，並對日本學者的相關理論有所批評。在技術哲學和思想史的交集中，作者以前所未有的深度探索了日本動畫內在的物質材料屬性，為批判地考察日本動畫及相關媒介提供了理論基礎。
作者簡介
Thomas Lamarre is a scholar of media, cinema and animation, intellectual history and material culture at the University of Chicago, with projects ranging from the communication networks of 9th century Japan (Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription, 2000), to silent cinema and the global imaginary (Shadows on the Screen: Tanizaki Jun’ichirō on Cinema and Oriental Aesthetics, 2005), animation technologies (The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation, 2009) and on television infrastructures and media ecology (The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media, 2018). Current projects include research on animation that addresses the use of animals in the formation of media networks associated with colonialism and extraterritorial empire, and the consequent politics of animism and speciesism.
His work as a translator includes major works from Japanese and French: Kawamata Chiaki’s novel Death Sentences(University of Minnesota, 2012); Muriel Combes’s Gilbert Simondon and the Philosophy of the Transindividual (MIT, 2012); and David Lapoujade’s William James: Pragmatism and Empiricsm (Duke University Press, 2019).
He has also edited volumes on cinema and animation, on the impact of modernity in East Asia, on pre-emptive war, and formerly, as Associate Editor of Mechademia: An Annual Forum for Anime, Manga, and the Fan Arts, a number of volumes on manga, anime, and fan cultures. He is co-editor with Takayuki Tatsumi of a book series with the University of Minnesota Press entitled “Parallel Futures,” which centers on Japanese speculative fiction. Current editorial work includes a co-edited volume on Chinese animation with Daisy Yan Du and a co-edited volume on Digital Animalities with Jody Berland.
He previously taught in East Asian Studies and Communications Studies at McGill University. As James McGill Professor Emeritus of Japanese Media Studies at McGill University, he continues to work with the Moving Image Research Laboratory, funded by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, and partnered by local research initiatives such as Immediations, Hexagram, and Artemis.