Anomie and Isolation: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Ghost in the Shell, Serial Experiments Lain, and Japanese Consensus Society
The essay explores how the societal effects of Japan’s economic recession during the 1990s are reflected in several cultural texts from that period: Haruki Murakami’s novel The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, the animé film Ghost in the Shell and the animé series Serial Experiments Lain.Faced with sudden jo...
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Language: | English |
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University of the Philippines
2002-06-01
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Series: | Humanities Diliman |
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Online Access: | http://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/humanitiesdiliman/article/view/30 |