Traditional Monster Imagery in Manga, Anime and Japanese Cinema

Traditional Monster Imagery in Manga, Anime and Japanese Cinema builds on the earlier volume Anime and its Roots in Early Japanese Monster Art (2010), that aimed to position contemporary Japanese animation within a wider art historical context by tracing the development of monster representations in Edo- and Meiji-period artworks and post-war visual media.

While the previous volume concentrated on modern media representations, this work focuses on how Western art histroical Concepts and methodology might be adapted when considering non-Western works, introducing traditional monster art in more detail, while also maintaining its links to post-war animation, sequential art and Japanese ciema.

The volume aims at a general readership interested in Japanese art and media as well as graduate students who might be searching for a research model within the fields of Animation Studies, Media Studies or Visual Communication Design.

Zilia Papp PhD is Assistant Professor in Media Studies at the Faculty of Global and Interdisciplinary Studies, Hosei Univesity, Tokyo. Originally from Hungary, Dr. Papp received her M. Des and B. Des at Kyushu University, Japan, and her PhD in Media and Communications from the University of New South Wales, Sydney.

She currently lectures on Contemporary Art and Media in the Asia-Pacific Region and Animation Studies as well as contributes articles to The Japan Times. Dr. Papp also plays a monster extra in the 2005 film `Great Yokai Wars', although it would be hard to identify her, weraing diverse masks and claws of Japanese monsters.