Analyzing Lain: A Complex History of Japanese Identity

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Textual Sources:
1)Napier, Susan J. “When the Machines Stop: Fantasy, Reality, and Terminal Identity in ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’ and ‘Serial Experiments Lain.’” Science Fiction Studies 29, no. 3 (2002): 418–35. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4241108.
2)Napier, Susan J. “The Problem of Existence in Japanese Animation.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 149, no. 1 (2005): 72–79. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4598910.
3)Exhibits. USU Digital Exhibits. (n.d.). http://exhibits.usu.edu/exhibits/show...
4)Baudrillard, J., & Glaser, S. F. (2020). Simulacra and simulation. The University of Michigan Press.
5)Kodama, Sanehide, and Ken Inoue. Postmodernism in Japan.
6)“Reinterpreting the Japanese Economic Miracle.” Harvard Business Review, 1 Aug. 2014, hbr.org/1998/01/reinterpreting-the-japanese-economic-miracle.
7)Okita, Saburo. “Japan’s Economy and the Korean War.” Far Eastern Survey, vol. 20, no. 14, 1951, pp. 141–44. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3024219. Accessed 1 Oct. 2023.

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Osartag “Saudade”:    • Saudade (Dark Downtempo/Trip-hop Music)  
   • Gnossienne: No. 3  
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Clips:
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3) Ryutaro Nakamura, Yoshitoshi ABe, creators. Serial Experiments Lain. Genco, Pioneer LDC,1999.
4) Ôtomo, Katsuhiro. Akira. Streamline Pictures, 1988.
5) Takahata, Isao. Grave of the Fireflies. GKIDS, 1988.
6)"Today's Japan" - on Virtual Reality, 1990!:    • "Today's Japan" - on Virtual Reality,...  
7)”Japan Was The First Nation To Embrace Internet Technology (2001)”:
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