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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Elmo Gonzaga
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Philippines 2002-06-01
Series:Humanities Diliman
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Online Access:http://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/humanitiesdiliman/article/view/30