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Bringing Anime To Academic Libraries: A Recommended Core Collection, Laura Pope Robbins

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The author discusses Japanese anime and manga in the context of academic libraries. She notes that, while collections support the study of popular culture and give students access to materials that will engage them...they fail to include amime.

To rectify this, the author discusses a core list of anime titles for academic library collection development. This list was assembled based upon the author’s twenty-plus years of viewing anime and is the culmination of a sabbatical in which the author studied the history of Japanese animation and read extensively from acknowledged experts in the field. The films included here have stood …

Book Review: Barbara Maria Stafford: Good Looking: Essays On The Virtue Of Images, David Keck

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This is Rev. Keck's review of the book, Good Looking: Essays on the Virtue of Images, written by Barbara Stafford, and published by MIT Press, 1996. 259 p.