Introduction to Manga
UNIT TWO: READING MANGA
WEEK 7: Focalization & Case Studies
October 18
In the course pack
—Mieke Bal, “Laughing Mice, Or: On Focalization,” Poetics Today 2:2 (Winter, 1981): 202-210.
—Michael Nitsche, “Focalization in 3D Games.”
Manga excerpts:
Read Volume 1 Chapters 1-2 of KATSURA Masakazu’s Video Girl Ai online at MangaReader:
http://www.mangareader.net/269/video-girl-ai.html
Read OKAZAKI Mari’s Shutter Love online at MangaFox:
http://www.mangafox.com/manga/shutter_love/
October 20 Case Study 1 (Heather)
Read the first 2 volumes of Takemiya Keiko’s Kaze to ki no uta (A Song of Wind and Trees) online at MangaHere:
http://www.mangahere.com/manga/kaze_to_ki_no_uta/
