内容简介
通过对一些重要的日本动画作品、工作室、动画师和动画理论的细致分析，本书定义了日本动画的视觉特征以及那些特定的、“动画性”效果的具体意义。不同于从文化内涵、创作理念、叙事目的、内容主旨进入文本的研究，作者从技术的角度出发，将动画作为一种独特的运动影像来考察，通过其生产方式和技术、创作者之间的互动，揭示出动画本身是如何“处理”技术问题的，或者说，人们是如何运用动画的思维方式来思考技术问题的。为了阐明这一理论的实际意义,作者在书中详尽地考察了一系列重要的动画作品，包括宫崎骏的《天空之城》、庵野秀明的《蓝宝石之谜》和改编自 CLAMP 漫画原作的《人形电脑天使心》，清晣地脉络层层递进，用独特的方式重新讲述了日本动画的战后发展历程。本书引用德勒兹、伽达利、海德格尔、西蒙顿等人的技术理论，适当借鉴电影理论、精神分析和女性主义学说，并对日本学者的相关理论有所批评。在技术哲学和思想史的交集中，作者以前所未有的深度探索了日本动画内在的物质材料属性，为批判地考察日本动画及相关媒介提供了理论基础。
作者简介
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.