EAST-UA 708 Japanese Animation & New Media

This course looks at the terms and conditions of Japanese animation (primarily, though not exclusively, anime) as, in many ways, a new and unique mode of expression. The course is framed in which anime might, or might not, shift earlier modes of expression (both literary and animated): the prevalence of mythology in animation and the tension between mythology and ideology; the importance of genre; and the impact of “old” and “new” media on narrative structure and reception. Implications of these conditions for thinking about “Japanese” culture are also considered.

College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Studies
EAST-UA 708 | 4 units | Class#: 19368