War and déjà vu : Mamoru Oshii's Patlabor 2 and The sky crawlers

Mamoru Oshii’s war centered oeuvre offers a unique, prophetic and radical way of thinking about the relationship between war and peace. This dissertation focuses on his two animation films Patlabor 2(1993) and The Sky Crawlers(2008), as their similarity and contrast can offer a critical entry for un...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zhang, Ziyan
Language:English
Published: The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10722/207132