Frenchy Lunning | |
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Academic background | |
Alma mater | |
Thesis | Comic Books: Sex And Death At The Edge Of Modernity (2001) |
Doctoral advisor | Barbara E. Martinson |
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Discipline | Popular culture |
Sub-discipline | Anime and manga |
Institutions | Minneapolis College of Art and Design |
Nancy Erroll French Lunning [1] is an American academic who specializes in anime. She is a Professor Emeritus in Liberal Arts at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
Nancy Erroll French Lunning was born to Patricia McGrew and William French [2] and graduated from Muscatine High School in 1968. [3] She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Iowa and her Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from Hamline University. [4] In 2000,she received her PhD in Design,Housing and Apparel from the University of Minnesota; [5] her dissertation Comic Books:Sex And Death At The Edge Of Modernity was supervised by Barbara E. Martinson. [6] She became a professor at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1980,and she was director of their SES program from 1994 until 2010. [7] She later became Professor Emeritus in Liberal Arts. [8]
As an academic,Lunning specializes in anime and manga. She and Sandra Annett are the co-editors of Mechademia ,an academic journal on Japanese popular culture; [9] she alone was also the editor of the journal's first run from 2006 until 2015. [10] In 2013,she published Fetish Style,a book on fetish fashion. [11] In 2022,she wrote the book Cosplay:The Fictional Mode of Existence . [10] She has also served as the director of the Schoolgirls and Mobile Suits conference and its successor Mechademia Conference. [12] She has also written chapters on object-oriented ontology. [10]
Outside of academia,Lunning also worked in the film industry,as a costume designer and stage manager,and also as a producer for Moving Walkway Productions,a film production company specializing in music videos. [12] [13] She was a guest at KakkoiCon 2008 and AniMinneapolis 2011,two anime conventions in her local Minneapolis. [10]
Hentai is a style of Japanese pornographic anime and manga. In addition to anime and manga,hentai works exist in a variety of media,including artwork and video games.
Otaku is a Japanese word that describes people with consuming interests,particularly in anime,manga,video games,or computers. Its contemporary use originated with a 1983 essay by Akio Nakamori in Manga Burikko.
Cosplay,a portmanteau of "costume play",is an activity and performance art in which participants called cosplayers wear costumes and fashion accessories to represent a specific character. Cosplayers often interact to create a subculture,and a broader use of the term "cosplay" applies to any costumed role-playing in venues apart from the stage. Any entity that lends itself to dramatic interpretation may be taken up as a subject. Favorite sources include anime,cartoons,comic books,manga,television series,rock music performances,video games and in some cases,original characters.
Haibane Renmei is a 2002 Japanese anime television series based on an unfinished dōjinshi manga series by Yoshitoshi Abe,The Haibanes of Old Home. The 13-episode series was directed by Tomokazu Tokoro,animated by Radix,and produced by Yasuyuki Ueda. It first aired on Fuji TV between October and December 2002,and was later broadcast on Animax Asia in English and French under the title Ailes Grises.
Rei Ayanami is a fictional character from the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise,created by Gainax studio. In the anime series of the same name,Rei is an introverted girl chosen as the enigmatic pilot of a giant mecha named Evangelion Unit 00. At the beginning of the series,Rei is an enigmatic figure whose unusual behavior astonishes her peers. As the series progresses,she becomes more involved with the people around her,particularly her classmate and fellow Eva pilot,Shinji Ikari. Rei appears in the franchise's animated feature films and related media,video games,the original net animation Petit Eva:Evangelion@School,the Rebuild of Evangelion films,and the manga adaptation by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto.
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He Is My Master is a Japanese manga series written by Mattsuu and illustrated by Asu Tsubaki,a formerly married couple. It originally ran in Monthly Shōnen Gangan from February 2002 to February 2007. It was adapted into an anime television series by Gainax and Shaft in 2005.
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Mechademia:Second Arc is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal in English about Japanese popular culture products and fan practices. It is published by the University of Minnesota Press and the editor-in-chief is Frenchy Lunning. Mechademia has also held an annual conference since 2001.
Alodía Almira Arraiza Gosiengfiao-Quimbo is a Filipino cosplayer,model,TV presenter,singer,vlogger,actress and co-founder of Tier One Entertainment. She is also known as Senpai Alodia of the Philippines. As a celebrity endorser,she is one of the ambassadors and VJ for Animax Asia known as the "Ani-mates" and co-host of ABS-CBN's prank show Laugh Out Loud. She has been featured in various magazines,newspapers and TV shows locally and abroad. She appeared on the Filipino FHM 100 Sexiest Women poll,ranking No. 1 in 2009,No. 2 in 2010 and No. 3 in 2012;she posed as the cover girl for that magazine on its July 2013 issue. She was named by DOS Magazine as one of the Most Influential Women in the Philippines.
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