The cyborg-other : Japan’s animated images of sex, gender, and race

Using a semiotic reading of gender codes and Donna Haraway's cyborg theory, this paper is a study of the image of the cyborg through Japanese animated films and by extension a study of Japan through the cyborg. In such animated films as "Ghost in the Shell" (Oshii Mamoru, 1995), &quo...

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Main Author: Knowles, Alison Michelle
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/12354