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DR Filippo Cervelli's Outputs (17)

Immediacy in Contemporary Japanese Literature and Popular Culture: The Supremacy of the Present (2025)
Book
Cervelli, F. (2025). Immediacy in Contemporary Japanese Literature and Popular Culture: The Supremacy of the Present. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003472384

This book analyzes the theme of immediacy and the supremacy of the present in contemporary Japanese fiction. Examining immediacy in literary works by a diverse body of authors and works in popular culture released during the major social and economic... Read More about Immediacy in Contemporary Japanese Literature and Popular Culture: The Supremacy of the Present.

Dragon Ball, Japan and the World: The Legacy of Akira Toriyama (2024)
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Cervelli, F. Dragon Ball, Japan and the World: The Legacy of Akira Toriyama

Dr Filippo Cervelli looks back on the work of late Japanese manga artist Akira Toriyama and its great cultural impact in touching the hearts of many across the world and contributing decisively to Japan’s global image.

Invisible Cities in Japan: Fluid Resonances in Architecture and Literature (2024)
Book Chapter
Cervelli, F., & Dellacasa, C. (2024). Invisible Cities in Japan: Fluid Resonances in Architecture and Literature. In E. Baldi, & C. Schwartz (Eds.), Circulation, Translation and Reception across Borders: Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities around the World (211-227). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003293996-14

Filippo Cervelli and Claudia Dellacasa begin their chapter “Invisible Cities in Japan – fluid resonances in architecture and literature” with the evocative and meaningful cover image of avant-garde artist Ikeda Tatsuo of the first Japanese edition of... Read More about Invisible Cities in Japan: Fluid Resonances in Architecture and Literature.

Mindless happiness: presentism, utopia and dystopian suspension of thought in Psycho-Pass (2022)
Journal Article
Cervelli, F. (online). Mindless happiness: presentism, utopia and dystopian suspension of thought in Psycho-Pass. Japan Forum, https://doi.org/10.1080/09555803.2021.1942137

Contemporary Japanese popular culture is particularly rich in representations of utopian social imaginations that often reveal dystopian scenarios. The anime series Psycho-Pass (2012–2013), especially, is overtly aware of its everyday utopia, and of... Read More about Mindless happiness: presentism, utopia and dystopian suspension of thought in Psycho-Pass.

The Lonely Nerd (2022)
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(2022). The Lonely Nerd. Warwick

This is the twenty-second issue of Exchanges, published in August 2022. This is our fourth special issue focussing on cultural experiences around the theme of the lonely nerd. Developed in collaboration with scholars from the Universities of Oxford a... Read More about The Lonely Nerd.

Saved by the Nerd: Otaku and the space of family in Summer Wars (2022)
Journal Article
Cervelli, F. (2022). Saved by the Nerd: Otaku and the space of family in Summer Wars. Exchanges (Coventry), 9(3), 203-225. https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.887

This article analyses Hosoda Mamoru’s anime film Summer Wars (2009) through its rearticulation of the lonely male otaku. A highly debated issue in and outside of Japan, the otaku community of fans shares with nerds associations with obsessive interes... Read More about Saved by the Nerd: Otaku and the space of family in Summer Wars.

Socially Inept? The perceived loneliness of nerds (2022)
Journal Article
Cervelli, F., & Schaper, B. (2022). Socially Inept? The perceived loneliness of nerds. Exchanges (Coventry), 9(3), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v9i3.946

This introduction establishes the main perspectives of the special issue on the relationship between loneliness and nerds. We argue that the stereotype of the lonely nerd is becoming increasingly reductive in the technological age at the turn of the... Read More about Socially Inept? The perceived loneliness of nerds.

Shūnen to iu kibō: Abe Kazushige to Usami Rin ni yoru wakamono shōzō (2021)
Journal Article
Cervelli, F. (2021). Shūnen to iu kibō: Abe Kazushige to Usami Rin ni yoru wakamono shōzō. Nihon bungaku (Tokyo. 1952), 70(10), 22-32

This article proposes obsession as an important trait in considering narrative representations of alienated youth over the last twenty years. The study focuses on two novels: Nipponia Nippon (2001), by Abe Kazushige, and Oshi, moyu (2020), by Usami R... Read More about Shūnen to iu kibō: Abe Kazushige to Usami Rin ni yoru wakamono shōzō.

Crisis of Time! The Tyranny of the Immediate and Community in Two Literary Works by Takahashi Gen'ichirō (2021)
Journal Article
Cervelli, F. (in press). Crisis of Time! The Tyranny of the Immediate and Community in Two Literary Works by Takahashi Gen'ichirō. Japanese Studies, 41(3), 285-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/10371397.2021.1970519

In his fiction, Takahashi Gen’ichirō often portrays crises of contemporary life where characters do not identify with shared ideologies or communities, instead resorting to repetitive actions to survive in their empty daily existences. This article a... Read More about Crisis of Time! The Tyranny of the Immediate and Community in Two Literary Works by Takahashi Gen'ichirō.

Genpatsu no naka no dōbutsu tachi: Takahashi Gen'ichirō no 3.11 go bungaku wo kyōteki ni saikō suru = 原発のなかの動物たち――高橋源一郎の3・11後の文学を今日的に再考する (2021)
Book Chapter
Cervelli, F. (2021). Genpatsu no naka no dōbutsu tachi: Takahashi Gen'ichirō no 3.11 go bungaku wo kyōteki ni saikō suru = 原発のなかの動物たち――高橋源一郎の3・11後の文学を今日的に再考する. In S. Kimura, & A. Bayard-Sakai (Eds.), Sekai bungaku toshite no "shinsaigo bungaku" = 世界文学としての〈震災後文学〉 (406-436). Akashi shoten