Episode 47 - Akira
from Anime-Zing Podcast Hosted by Tristan Miller and Christina Tucker
This week, Tristan and Christina discuss Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira (1988) Topics of conversation include: The Olympics, Stranger Things, and 1980s Japan Track of the Week: Kaneda Links: 1990 Review Freida Freiburg, Akira and the Postnuclear Sublime in Hibakusha Cinema David Desser, Consuming Asia in Multiple Modernities Susan Napier, The Dystopian Imagination in The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature Susan Napier, Panic Sites: The Japanese Imagination of Disaster from Godzilla to Akira Thomas LaMarre, Born of Trauma: Akira and Capitalist Modes of Destruction Video Essays: AKIRA: How To Animate Light The Impact of Akira Understanding Disaster: Akira and the Postmodern Apocalypse Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! Support us on Patreon! Our theme song can be found here and is a remix of One Summer's Day by A June and J Beat.
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