Frames of Anime: Culture and Image-Building

by Tze-yue G. Hu

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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 show more other Asian animation studios, and interdisciplinary research in linguistics and performance theory, shows show less

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Nonfiction, Anthropology, History
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791.43340952Arts & recreationRecreation, sports, and performing artsPublic performancesMotion pictures, radio, television, podcastingMotion picturesTypes of presentation {class specific films in 791.437}Animated films
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NC1766 .J3 .H8Fine ArtsDrawing. Design. IllustrationDrawing. Design. IllustrationPictorial humor, caricature, etc.
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