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.
East Asian Studies (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2023)
EAST-UA 708-000 (19320)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Tue7:00 PM – 10:00 PM (Evening)at Washington SquareInstructed by Looser, Thomas