Anime's Identity: Performativity and Form Beyond Japan Suan Stevie
A formal approach to anime rethinks globalization and transnationality under neoliberalismAnime has become synonymous with Japanese culture, but its global reach raises a perplexing question--what…
Specifikacia Anime's Identity: Performativity and Form Beyond Japan Suan Stevie
A formal approach to anime rethinks globalization and transnationality under neoliberalismAnime has become synonymous with Japanese culture, but its global reach raises a perplexing question--what happens when anime is produced outside of Japan? Who actually makes anime, and how can this help us rethink notions of cultural production? In Anime's Identity, Stevie Suan examines how anime's recognizable media-form--no matter where it is produced--reflects the problematics of globalization. The result is an incisive look at not only anime but also the tensions of transnationality.Far from valorizing the individualistic "originality" so often touted in national creative industries, anime reveals an alternate type of creativity based in repetition and variation. In exploring this alternative creativity and its accompanying aesthetics, Suan examines anime from
Japan beyond the Kimono
Discourse and Identity
Form and Object
Identity and Capitalism
Language, Borders and Identity