From 'Sailor Moon' to sexual politics: Anime meets academia
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Anime scholar Susan Napier delivers a lecture at Columbia University. Shown here, she discusses dolls of the character Ayanami Rei from the apocalyptic anime Neon Genesis Evangelion. (Sarah Brown/CNS)
Anime scholar Susan Napier delivers a lecture at Columbia University. (Sarah Brown/CNS)
Anime scholar Susan Napier delivers a lecture at Columbia University. (Sarah Brown/CNS)
Pam Gossin and Marc Hairston teach a literature class at University of Texas at Dallas about the Japanese art forms of anime and manga. (Courtesy of Marc Hairston)
The fanciful Japanese medium that brought us "Pokemon" and "Dragon Ball Z" has arrived in the United States as a serious art form.
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