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- Title
Mecha-topia: Imagining a Posthuman Paradise in Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis.
- Authors
Schaub, Joseph Christopher
- Abstract
The article examines the utopian aspirations of Osamu Tezuka's mechanical animation film "Metropolis," a subgenre of Japanese animation which depicts robots and cyborgs in futuristic narratives. It points that the film's manga offers a pioneering illustration of the posthuman child's relationship with his human predecessors. It also analyses how the collision of bodies and architecture in the film creates a positive capacity of human evolution for mechanical animation.
- Subjects
UTOPIAS in motion pictures; METROPOLIS (Film : 1927); ANIMATION (Cinematography); POSTHUMANISM; ANIMATED films; JAPANESE fantasy fiction; TEZUKA, Osamu, 1928-1989; MANGA (Art)
- Publication
Interdisciplinary Humanities, 2010, Vol 27, Issue 2, p94
- ISSN
1056-6139
- Publication type
Article