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Jeremy Robinson has published poetry, fiction, and studies of J.R.R. Tolkien, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Hardy, André Gide and D.H. Lawrence. Robinson has edited poetry books by Novalis, Ursula Le Guin, Friedrich Hölderlin, Francesco Petrarch, Dante Alighieri, Arseny Tarkovsky, and Rainer Maria Rilke. Books on film and animation include: The Cinema of Hayao Miyazaki Hayao Miyazaki: Pocket Guide Princess Mononoke: Pocket Movie Guide Spirited Away: Pocket Movie Guide Pasolini: Il cinema di Poesia/ The Cinema of Poetry The Art of Masamune Shirow (3 volumes) The Ghost In the Shell Book (2 volumes) Fullmetal Alchemist Blade Runner and the Cinema of Philip K. Dick Blade Runner: Pocket Movie Guide The Cinema of Donald Cammell Performance: Donald Cammell: Nic Roeg: Pocket Movie Guide Ken Russell: England's Great Visionary Film Director and Music Lover Tommy: Ken Russell: The Who: Pocket Movie Guide Women In Love: Ken Russell: D.H. Lawrence: Pocket Movie Guide The Devils: Ken Russell: Pocket Movie Guide Walerian Borowczyk: Cinema of Erotic Dreams The Beast: Pocket Movie Guide The Lord of the Rings Movies The Fellowship of the Ring: Pocket Movie Guide The Two Towers: Pocket Movie Guide The Return of the King: Pocket Movie Guide Jean-Luc Godard: The Passion of Cinema The Sacred Cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky Andrei Tarkovsky: Pocket Guide.

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C O W B O Y B E B O P THE ANIME TV SERIES AND MOVIE by Jeremy Mark Robinson Sex + drugs + rock music + comedy + Westerns + crime + drifter lifestyles + space battles + bars + casinos + fashion – and more music – what’s not to like in Cowboy Bebop?! – and how it wittily and cleverly mixes all of those elements, and many more. This book focusses on the celebrated, hugely entertaining, cult 26-episode Japanese anime TV series Cowboy Bebop (1998), as well as the 2001 movie of the series. Cowboy Bebop is one of the masterpieces of animation of recent times. That Cowboy Bebop (first broadcast in 1998, and produced by Sunrise (a subsidiary of Bandai) and TV Tokyo), is a fan favourite goes without saying. It is a masterpiece of storytelling, invention, design and production on every level. It is unique. It regularly features in top ten lists of anime favourites, and sometimes tops the lists. Easy to see why: it’s got everything, and then some. Includes chapters on the Japanese animation industry; on the personnel and the production of Cowboy Bebop; on the style, world and music of the series; and its many cultural links. At the centre of this book is an episode guide to Cowboy Bebop, running through every show in great detail. There is a chapter on the movie of Cowboy Bebop, released in 2001. The appendices include accounts of shows and manga linked to Cowboy Bebop (such as Macross Plus, Samurai Champloo and samurai manga). Includes: filmographies; resources; video and DVD availability; quotes from fans on Cowboy Bebop. Fully illustrated, including many images of the series and the movie, the actors and personnel, and related anime shows. Bibliography and notes. The hardcover edition comes in a smart case laminate cover, with a matte finish, in full colour. ISBN 9781861715678. 436 pages. www.crmoon.com