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Editor's Notes . . vii
List of Figures . . viii
Introduction . . 1

Manga and Genres
1. Manga: A Historical Overview . . 17
2. An Overview of Manga Genres . . 34
3. What Boys Will Be: A Study of Shonen Manga . . 62
4. The "Beautiful Boy" in Japanese Girls' Manga . . 77
5. Shojo Manga in Japan and Abroad . . 93

Manga in Depth
6. Oishinbo's Adventures in Eating: Food, Communication, and Culture in Japanese Comics . . 109
7. Osamu Tezuka's Gekiga: Behind the Mask of Manga . . 128
8. A Look at Hikawa Kyoko's Kanata kara . . 137
9. The Power of Truth: Gender and Sexuality in Manga . . 157
10. The Reluctant Messiah: Miyazaki Hayao's Nausicad of the Valley of the Wind Manga . . 173

Reading Manga
11. Japanese Visual Language: The Structure of Manga . . 187
12. International Singularity in Sequential Art: The Graphic Novel in the United States, Europe, and Japan . . 204
13. The Manga Polysystem: What Fans Want, Fans Get . . 221

Manga in the World
14. Hybrid Manga: Implications for the Global Knowledge Economy . . 235
15. Manga in Europe: A Short Study of Market and Fandom . . 253
16. Manga Shakespeare . . 267
17. The Manga Phenomenon in America . . 281
18. Manga in East Asia . . 297
19. The Manga Publishing Scene in Europe . . 315
20. Globalizing Manga: from Japan to Hong Kong and Beyond . . 332

Notes on Contributors . . 351
Index . . 353

Preface . . vii
Acknowledgments . . xii

PART ONE: EARLY ITALIAN CINEMA
1 The Silent Era . . 1
2 The Coming of Sound and the Fascist Era . . 20

PART TWO: ITALIAN NEOREALISM
3 Masters of Neorealism: Rossellini, De Sica, and Visconti . . 61
4 Exploring the Boundaries of Neorealism . . 98
5 The Break with Neorealism: The Cinema Reconstruction Fellini's Trilosies of Character and Grace, and the Return of Melodrama . . 127

PART THREE: THE GOLDEN AGE OF ITALIAN CINEMA
6 The Italian "Peplum": The Sword and Sandal Epic . . 159
7 Commedia all'italiana: Comedy and Social Criticism . . 180
8 Neorealism's Legacy to a New Generation, and the Italian Political Film . . 217
9 The Mateur Auteurs: New Dimensions in Film Narrative in Visconti, Antonioni, De Sica, and Fellini . . 259
10 The Spaghetti Nightmare: Horror Films from the 1950s to the Present . . 306
11 A Fistful of Pasta: Sergio Leone and the Spaghetti Western . . 338
12 Mystery, Gore, and Mayhem: The Italian Giallo . . 372
13 Myth, Marx, and Freud in Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bernardo Bertolucci . . 416
14 The Poliziesco: Italian Crime Films from the 1970s to the Present . . 453

PART FOUR: GENERATIONAL CHANGE IN THE CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN CINEMA
15 The Old Guard Never Surrenders: Italy's Prewar Auteurs in the 1980s and 1990s . . 497
16 The Third Wave: A New Generation of Auteurs . . 519
17 Italian Cinema Enters the Third Millennium . . 557

Notes . . 567
Bibliography . . 593
Photo Credits . . 646
Index . . 647