xx, 254 pages : 24 cm Publisher description: While Japanese manga and anime began to make inroads in Western culture about three decades ago, these art forms remained a subcultural phenomenon until ...

Antebellum idyll and Hollywood's black-cast musicals -- Harlem is heaven: city motifs in race films from the early sound era -- Cotton in the city: the black ghetto, blaxploitation, and beyond -- ...

Marking 40 years of Dragon Ball, this tribute explores Akira Toriyama’s legacy and the global rise of manga from Japanese ...