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Fetish Style examines the history and diversity of fetish fashion from mainstream to subcultural. Highly accessible and fascinating, it will appeal to anyone interested in fetish fashion, both past and present.

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Fetish Style examines the history and diversity of fetish fashion from mainstream to subcultural. Highly accessible and fascinating, it will appeal to anyone interested in fetish fashion, both past and present.

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"Cosplay is a unique and necessary examination of identity, performance, play, and otaku fandom and culture in relation to contemporary theories. Through a culmination of years of personal research on cosplay, author Frenchy Lunning offers an intimate, sensational tour through cosplay's past and present, as well as its global lure"--

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"Cosplay is a unique and necessary examination of identity, performance, play, and otaku fandom and culture in relation to contemporary theories. Through a culmination of years of personal research on cosplay, author Frenchy Lunning offers an intimate, sensational tour through cosplay's past and present, as well as its global lure"--

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Anime and manga have long proposed alternative worldssome created after catastrophe. Mechademia 10 revolves around Japan's 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear reactor crises and considers a propensity for "world renewal."

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This inaugural volume on anime and manga engages the rise of Japanese popular culture through game design, fashion, graphic design, commercial packaging, character creation, and fan culture. Promoting dynamic ways of thinking, along with a wealth of images, this cutting-edge work opens new doors between academia and fandom.

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As passive consumers of manga and anime become active users of cultural commodities, this volume explores the possibilities of, and challenges for, engagement

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Contributors to volume eight of Mechademia analyze Tezuka Osamu and his complicated approaches toward life and nonlife, as well as his effect on other manga artists. Using essays and reprints of Japanese manga on Tezuka, this volume questions his influence and attitudes toward the nonhuman, the sexual politics of manga bodies, and the origins of the moe culture, among others.

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