Frames of Anime: Culture and Image-building

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Hong Kong University Press, 2010 - 228 páginas
Japanese anime has long fascinated the world, and its mythical heroes and dazzling colors increasingly influence popular culture genres in the West. Tze-yue G. Hu analyzes the "language-medium" of this remarkable expressive platform and its many socio-cultural dimensions from a distinctly Asian frame of reference, tracing its layers of concentric radiation from Japan throughout Asia. Her work, rooted in archival investigations, interviews with animators and producers in Japan as well as other Asian animation studios, and interdisciplinary research in linguistics and performance theory, shows how dialectical aspects of anime are linked to Japan's unique experience of modernity and its cultural associations in Asia, including its reliance on low-wage outsourcing. Her study also provides English readers with insights on numerous Japanese secondary sources, as well as a number of original illustrations offered by animators and producers she interviewed.

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Origins of the Japanese Art of Animating
13
Continuity of Art Forms and Their Visualness
25
Cultural Thought Expressing the Self and Imagebuilding
45
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Tze-yue G. Hu lectures on East Asian identities and cultures and other Asian studies courses at the School of International and Area Studies, University of Oklahoma.

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