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The Film Snob*s Dictionary goes on sale in bookstores this Tuesday, February 21, and can be ordered via Amazon by clicking on its cover in the sidebar at right. Already, the New York Times and Washington Post have given the book favorable reviews, and we’ve not even yet heard from the Altoona (Pa.) Mirror! February 19, 2006 More Film Snobbery »
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Anime. Catchall term for Japanese or Japanese-style animation, an understanding of which is said by Snobs to be crucial to understanding the future of cinema (yea, of our very culture!), since it, like CHOP-SOCKY, will inform all filmmaking visionaries worth a damn—even though it reliably focuses on species-nonspecific furry animals and childlike humanoids with enormous, saucery eyes. A societal subculture as much as it is a genre, anime takes many forms, including merchandise-shifting product (Pokémon), lyrical children’s fare (the films of Hayao Miyazaki), and explicit pornography (the subgenre known as hentai, in which the childlike humanoids have enormous, R. Crumb–inspired bosoms to go with their enormous, saucery eyes). Anime has established an American beachhead with the Chicago-based Manga Entertainment (manga is the Japanese word for “comics”), the distributor behind the cult hits Ghost in the Shell and Blood: The Last Vampire. Read more from the Film Snob's Dictionary » 
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