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Bibliography:
Adams, Jeff. “Of Mice and Manga: Comics and Graphic Novels in Art Education.” Journal of Art & Design Education, 18: 69–75, 1999.
Allen, Kate and Igulsrud, John E. “Manga Literacy: Popular Culture and the Reading Habits of Japanese College Students.” Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, Vol. 46 No. 6 (2003): 674-683. (JSTOR Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40017172) (You will have to request access.)
Allison, Anne. Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics and Censorship in Japan. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996. (Available at GMU)
Araki, James T. “Sharebon: Books for Men of Mode.” Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 24, No. ½ (1969): 31-45. (JSTOR - on Edo period)
Chang, Chih-Chieh. “Interview with Ageha Ohkawa and Misuhisa Ishikawa” (for the Anime News Network feature March 2, 2006). (URL: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2006-03-02/7) (Not suitable as a source for course assignments)
Craig, Timothy Ed. Japan Pop: Inside the World of Japanese Popular Culture! Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2000. (At NOVA and GMU)
Eisher, Will. Comics and Sequential Art. Tamarae, FL: Poorhouse Press, 2004. (At NOVA and GMU) (Good for background, but not particularly useful for manga)
Frühstück, Sabine. "Untitled review of Adult Manga: Culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society." Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Summer 2002): 498-502. (JSTOR Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4126836) (Not suitable as a source for course assignments, but useful if you choose to read Kinsella's book)
Gottlieb, Nanette and McLelland, Mark Eds.. Japanese Cybercultures. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. (At NOVA and GMU)
Gravett, Paul. Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics. London: Laurence and King Pub., 2004. (At NOVA and GMU)
Hampton, Howard. Born In Flames. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. (Available at GMU)
Harris, Cheryl and Alexander, Alison Eds. Theorizing Fandom: Fans, Subculture and Identity. New Jersey: Hampton Press, 1998. (Available at GMU)
Hibbett, Howard. The Chrysanthemum and the Fish. Tokyo, London, and New York: Kodansha International, 2002. (Available at GMU)
Inamura, Taihei. “Comparative Study of Comics: American and Japanese, Sazae-san and Blondie” in Kato, Hidetoshi. Japanese Popular Culture. Rutland, Vt. and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1959. (Available at LoC and UVA)
Ito, Kinko. “A History of Manga in the Context of Japanese Culture and Society,” The Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 38, Issue 3 (2005): 456 (Ask me for a copy)
---. “Growing Up Japanese Reading Manga.” International Journal of Comic Art, Fall (2004).
---. “The Manga Culture in Japan.” Japan Studies Review, 2000. (Volume available: http://casgroup.fiu.edu/pages/docs/862/1309449302_2000.pdf)
Iwabuchi, Koichi. Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002. (Available at GMU)
Jones, Mason; Macias, Patrick; Oniki, Yuji; and Gustav Horn, Carl. Japan Edge: The Insider’s Guide to Japanese Pop Subculture. San Francisco: VIZ Media Llc., 1999. (Available at UVA)
Keene, Donald. World Within Walls. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1976. (Available at GMU)
Kern, Adam L. Manga From the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyoshi of Edo Japan. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007. (Available at GMU)
*Kinsella, Sharon. Adult Manga: Culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000. (Available at GMU)
---. Editors, Artists, and the Changing Status of Manga in Japanese Society 1986-1995. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
---. “Japanese Subculture in the 1990s: Otaku and the Amateur Manga Movement.” Journal of Japanese Studies, Volume 24, No. 2 (1998): 289-316. (JSTOR Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/133236)
Köhn, Stephan. "Review of Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyshi of Edo Japan." Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 62, No. 2 (Summer 2007): 235-237. (For additional information: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/mni/summary/v062/62.2kohn.html) (Not suitable as a source for course assignments)
Lamarre, Thomas. "Platonic Sex: Perversion and Shojo Anime (Pt. 1)." Animation, 1, 45 (2006). (URL: http://anm.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/1/1/45)
---. "Platonic Sex: Perversion and Shojo Anime (Pt. 2)." Animation, 2, 9 (2007). (URL: http://anm.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/2/1/9)
Ledoux, Trish. Anime Interviews: The First Five Years of Animerica, Anime, and Manga Monthly (1992-97). San Francisco: Cadence Books, 1997. (Available at GMU) (Useful for general information, but not suitable as a source for course assignments)
Lent, John A. “Japanese Comics” in Powers, Richard and Kato, Hidetoshi. Handbook of Japanese Popular Culture. New York, Westport and London: Greenwood Press, 1989. (Available at Georgetown, LoC)
---. Themes and Issues in Asian Cartooning: Cute, Cheap, Mad, and Sexy. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State Univ. Popular Press, 1999. (Available at GMU)
*MacWilliams, Mark. Japanese Visual Culture: Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2008. (At NOVA)
McCloud, Scott. Understanding Comics. New York: Kitchen Sink Press, 1993. (General source) (Available at FCPL and LoC)
McGregor, Richard. “Bad Girls and Mummies Boys,” in Japan Swings: Politics, Culture and Sex In the New Japan. St. Leonards, Australia: Allen and Unwin, 1996. (Available at GMU)
Misaka, Kaoru. “The First Japanese Manga Magazine in the United States.” Publishing Research Quarterly, Winter (2004).
Moeran, Brian. Language and Popular Culture in Japan. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1989. (Available at LoC, UVA)
Morton, Leith. “Mass Culture: TV, Cinema, and Manga” in Modern Japanese Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Mostow, Joshua S.; Bryson, Norman; Graybill, Maribeth, Eds. Gender and Power In the Japanese Visual Field. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003. (Available at GMU)
*Murakami, Takashi. Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005. (Important volume on modern Japanese art, related to manga) (Available at NOVA, GMU)
Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. Hokusai: Bridging East and West. Japan: Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 1998. (Edo period, not modern)
Nochlin, Linda. Women, Art and Power and Other Essays. New York: Harper and Row, 1988.
Ogi, Fusami. “Beyond Shoujo, Blending Gender: Subverting the Homogendered World in Shoujo Manga.” International Journal of Comic Art. (Unsuitable as a source for review) (Ask me for a copy)
---. “Female Subjectivity and Shoujo (Girls) Manga (Japanese Comics): Shoujo in Ladies’ Comics and Young Ladies’ Comics.” The Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 36 Issue 4 (2003): 780-803. (Ask me for a copy)
Powers, Richard and Kato, Hidetoshi. Handbook of Japanese Popular Culture. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.
Robertson, Jennifer. A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005.
Solomon, Charles. “Four Mothers of Manga Gain American Fans with Expertise In a Variety of Visual Styles.” New York Times, November 28, 2006, Late Edition. (Unsuitable as a source)
*Schodt, Frederik. Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics. Tokyo, New York and San Francisco: Kodansha International, 1983. (Available at LoC, UVA)
*---. Dreamland Japan. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press, 1996. (At NOVA and GMU)
*---. The Astro Boy Essays: Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom, Manga / Anime Revolution. Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press, 2007. (At NOVA)
Shitokawa, Kanako. "Cute but deadly: women and violence in Japanese comics." In John A. Lent. Themes and Issues in Asian Cartooning: Cute, Cheap, Mad, and Sexy. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State Univ. Popular Press, 1999. (Currently unavailable)
Schwartz, Adam and Eliane Rubinstein-Ávila. "Understanding the Manga hype: uncovering the multimodality of comic-book literacies." Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, Vol. 50, No. 1 (2006): 40-9. (Ask me for a copy)
Sugimoto, Yoshio. The Cambridge Companion to Japanese Popular Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. (At NOVA, GMU)
Tatsumi, Takayuki. Full Metal Apache: Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006. (At GMU)
Thorn, Matthew. “Girls and Women Getting Out of Hand: The Pleasure and Politics of Japan’s Amateur Comics Community.” In Kelly, William Ed. Fanning the Flames: Fans and Consumer Culture in Contemporary Japan. Albany: State University of New York, 2004. (At GMU)
Treat, John W. Contemporary Japan and Popular Culture. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996. (At GMU)
The articles below from Matthew Thorn's website are not suitable as sources for course assignments. However, they provide good information that is helpful for understanding manga.
Thorn, Matthew. “The Face of the Other.” Matt-Thorn.com. http://www.matt-thorn.com/Mangagaku/faceoftheother.html
---. “Shoujo Manga: Something For the Girls.” The Japan Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 3 (2001) http://matt-thorn.com/shoujo_manga/japan_quarterly/index.php
---. “Unlikely Explorers: Alternative Narratives of Love, Sex, Gender and Friendship in Japanese ‘Girls’’ Comics.” Matt-Thorn.com. http://www.matt-thorn.com/shoujo_manga/sexual_ambiguity/index.html
---. “What Japanese Girls Do with Manga and Why.” Paper presented at the Japan Anthropology Workshop, University of Melbourne, Australia, July 10, 1997. http://www.matt-thorn.com/shoujo_manga/jaws/index.html
---. “What Shoujo Manga Are and Are Not.” Matt-Thorn.com. http://www.matt-thorn.com/shoujo_manga/whatisandisnt.html
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