Frames of anime : culture and image-building / Tze-yue G. Hu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hu, Tze-yue G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animated films--Japan--History.

Animated films.

Motion pictures, Japanese--Asia--History.

Motion pictures, Japanese.

Culture in motion pictures.

Asia--Civilization--Japanese influences.

Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Origins of the Japanese art of animating

Continuity of art forms and their visualness

Cultural thought, expressing the self, and image-building

Development of Japanese animation up to the end of the Second World War

Postwar Japanese animation development and Toei Animation Studio

Miyazaki and Takahata Anime Cinema

Anime in Asia: a case of cultural imperialism?.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-217) and index.

ISBN:

988-220-772-3

1-282-75022-4

9786612750229

988-220-524-0

OCLC:

707091264