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The anime paradox : patterns and practices through the lens of traditional Japanese theater

Stevie Suan (Author)
Through the comparison of Anime with Noh, Bunraku, and Kabuki, The Anime Paradox provides a study on Anime's formal elements that produce specific narrative, structural, and aesthetic patterns
eBook, English, 2013
Global Oriental, Leiden, 2013
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xiv, 344 pages) : illustrations
9789004222151, 9004222154
844939529
Introduction
A simultaneous part and whole
Mixture of realism and unreality
Hyperbolized aesthetics
Scattering blossoms, falling leaves