Hosted by Carl Gustav Horn and Patrick Macias, co-authors of Cadence Books’ Japan Edge: The Insider’s Guide to Japanese Popular Subculture. This programme will give a sense of the real power and pleasure to be derived from Japanese animation by revealing the revolutionary moments in the history of Anime over the past four decades leading to today’s cutting edge and the exciting but threatening future. It will present a look at the often-strange ways in which Japanese popular culture has influenced and shaped Western culture and the world at large. Using a mixed-media approach, Horn and Macias will make the argument that the interest in Japanese pop culture abroad could be due to a phenomenon that the authors call Asian Chaos.
