Alistair Swale

Biographic Data

ID502933
NAMEAlistair Swale
GIVEN NAMESAlistair
FAMILY NAMESwale
SIGNATURESWALE A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Waikato
ORCID0000-0001-8808-1965
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • Gesaku and the renegotiation of ‘civilization and enlightenment’ through illustrated news

    Alistair SwaleARTICLEJapan Forum2022References: 12

    The Meiji Restoration of 1868 set in train a major reconfiguration of not only the political structure of government but also the world of letters, affecting not just academic elites but also the demimonde literati and artists who had enjoyed various forms of patronage under the Tokugawa regime.This article examines the initiatives of early Meiji gesakusha who, in collaboration with nishikie artists such as Ochiai Yoshiiku and Tsukioka Yoshitoshi…

  • Public Speaking and Serialized Novels

    Alistair SwaleARTICLEJapanese Studies2021References: 3

    The contribution of popular fiction writers (gesakusha) to the development of early Meiji literature has become more broadly acknowledged and examined. However, the distinctive contribution of oral performative storytelling traditions such as kōdan to the evolution of public speaking and serialized novels (tsuzukimono) has been largely overlooked. This article builds on existing scholarship to further explore the interaction between kōdan and two…

  • Animated film in Japan until 1919

    Alistair SwaleARTICLEEarly Popular Visual Culture2019

    Animated film in Japan until 1919: western animation and the beginnings of anime." Early Popular Visual Culture, 17(2), pp. 218–219

  • Memory and forgetting

    Alistair SwaleARTICLEJapan Forum2017Cited by: 1References: 13

    Within Japanese popular culture, manga and anime have played a significant role in mediating responses to the outcome of the Pacific War. Miyazaki Hayao's (possibly) final feature-length film, The Wind Rises, has been an important addition to the preceding body of popular media ‘texts’ that raise such themes. This article aims to address the question of how far cinematic animation can reasonably be obliged to follow the kinds of historiographical…

  • Political Thought of Mori Arinori

    Alistair SwaleBOOKPolitical Thought of Mori Arinori2016

  • Anime Aesthetics

    Open AccessAlistair Swale, Alistair D SwaleBOOKAnime Aesthetics2015

    Japanese animation has been given fulsome academic commentary in recent years. However, there is arguably a need for a more philosophically consistent and theoretically integrated engagement. While th

  • Miyazaki Hayao and the Aesthetics of Imagination

    Alistair SwaleARTICLEAsian Studies Review2015Cited by: 1References: 3

    Miyazaki Hayao has achieved international renown for a succession of feature-long animations that have been noted for their visual flair and highly imaginative world-constructs. Many of the narratives in these films have been situated in fantasy worlds with often only a tenuous representation of the world as experienced in some conventional contemporary (or historical) sense. Yet beyond the surface of these figures and fantastical plot devices th…

  • The Meiji Restoration

    Open AccessAlistair Swale, Alistair D SwaleBOOKMeiji Restoration2009

    The Meiji Restoration of 1868 is one of the most astonishing political events of the modern era, yet it doesn't fit easily with Western precedents of mass mobilization and social transformation. This

  • The Political Thought of Mori Arinori

    M Lincicome, Alistair SwaleARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2002

  • The Political Thought of Mori Arinori

    Kyu Hyun Kim, Alistair SwaleARTICLEPacific Affairs2002