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From Wooden Cyborgs to Celluloid Souls: Mechanical Bodies in Anime and Japanese Puppet Theater
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positions (2002) 10 (3): 729–771.
Published: 01 August 2002
...Christopher A. Bolton 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 From Wooden Cyborgs to Celluloid Souls: Mechanical Bodies in Anime and Japanese
Puppet Theater
Christopher A. Bolton
In contrast to something that retains its form, information periodically changes...
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The Last Korean Animation: Wonderful Days and the Aesthetics of Global Monopoly Capitalism
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positions 11626817.
Published: 27 February 2025
... represents South Korean animation's defeat by American and Japanese monopoly capitalism. It then analyzes contradictions in the film's aesthetics and narrative to show the incompatibility of these countries’ postindustrial, ecoutopian ideology with persistent Korean manufacturing dependency and proletarian...
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“Kawaii” And “Moe” — Gazes, Geeks ( Otaku ), and Glocalization of Beautiful Girls ( Bishōjo ) in Hong Kong Youth Culture
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positions (2013) 21 (4): 853–884.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Wai-hung Yiu; Alex Ching-shing Chan The popularity and circulation of Japanese manga bishōjo (“beautiful young girls”) (Japanese teenage girl comics), and its consumptive creations in forms of cosplays (public costume parades in anime characters), toy figures, and animes appropriated by the local...
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What Is Japanese Cinema?: Imamura Taihei’s Wartime Theory of Japanese Film, Tradition, and Art
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positions (2019) 27 (4): 597–621.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Rea Amit Imamura Taihei (1911–86) is considered by many to be the first film theorist in Japan, and he is known chiefly for his two grand theories on documentary film and animation. Yet, at the same time, Imamura also developed a third, no less ambitious theory, that of “Cinema and Japanese Art...
View articletitled, What Is <span class="search-highlight">Japanese</span> Cinema?: Imamura Taihei’s Wartime Theory of <span class="search-highlight">Japanese</span> Film, Tradition, and Art
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Working Worlds in Neoliberal Japan: Precarity, Imagination, and the “Other-World” Trope
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 171–202.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Brett Hack Abstract This article analyzes depictions of work in postmillennial Japanese media, particularly anime and manga, in order to theorize the function of imaginative responses to the social dislocations of neoliberalism. Critical studies of precarity in Japanese popular culture have tended...
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Confronting Master Narratives: History As Vision in Miyazaki Hayao's Cinema of De-assurance
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positions (2001) 9 (2): 467–493.
Published: 01 May 2001
... and the beginning of the animation boom in the
1970s, concurrent with the deep cultural changes occurring as Japan went
from economic dependent to economic superpower, however, visions of the
Japanese past became both fragmented and ideologically diverse...
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Contributors
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positions (2007) 15 (3): 673–674.
Published: 01 August 2007
... is the author of Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural
Globalization (2006). He is currently writing a book called “Global Anime” about the mak-
ing of Japanese animation. Web site: iancondry.com.
Guo-Juin Hong is assistant...
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Editor's Introduction
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positions (2002) 10 (3): 505–509.
Published: 01 August 2002
... Cyborgs to Celluloid Souls: Mechanical Bodies in
Anime and Japanese Puppet Theater” is also about the historical instability
of our bodies in the mighty historical efflorescence of objectification pro-
duced by contemporary capital. Like Ban Wang...
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positions 11628281.
Published: 27 February 2025
... substance. The aesthetic mimicry and mishmash of Japanese anime and Disney cliché left incoherent the narrative subtext on the significance of Korean social movements and mass uprisings. Rather than treating success and failure as independent variables, Gottesman therefore situates the failure...
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Trouble in New Utopia
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positions (2004) 12 (3): 667–686.
Published: 01 August 2004
..., a multitude of diverse cultural references
including Greek kouros, Joseon-era baekja ware, and the impossibly curva-
ceous forms of female cyborgs found in Japanese animation. The seemingly
intentional suturing of these references metaphorically...
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Animating the Trauma: Colonial Atrocities and the Use of New Media in Contemporary South Korean Museums
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positions (2023) 31 (4): 863–892.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Chung-kang Kim Abstract When Tongnip kinyŏmgwan 독립기념관 (the Independence Hall of Korea) opened in 1987 to commemorate independence from Japanese colonial rule, the sensational depiction of violence within its technologically innovative diorama display drew substantial public attention. These diorama...
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Born of Trauma: Akira and Capitalist Modes of Destruction
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positions (2008) 16 (1): 131–156.
Published: 01 February 2008
... Japanese animated film to date. Otomo’s icons
of urban destruction meshed with the increasing transnational distribution
and reception of Japanese popular culture in Europe and North America
(where, for the first time,manga and anime versions...
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Nakagami Kenji's Mystic Writing Pad; Or, Tracing Origins, Tales of the Snake, and the Land as Matrix
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positions (1995) 3 (1): 224–254.
Published: 01 February 1995
... of Japanese animism (reshaped by the influx
of Buddhism and writing). For Nakagami, Kumano folklore functions as a
complex and contradictory conduit to a nonrationalized spiritualism bound
to erotic and aggressive drive. The Kumano...
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When Anne Frank Met Astro Boy: Drawing the Holocaust through Manga
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positions (2020) 28 (4): 729–755.
Published: 01 November 2020
... . “ The Animation of Anne: Japanese Anime Encounters the Diary of a Holocaust Icon .” Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities 24 , no. 1 : 71 – 81 . “ Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto .” 2015 . Tanimoto Peace Foundation homepage . www.tanimotopeacefoundation.org/reverend-kiyoshi-tanimoto ( accessed...
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Strange Nuptials: Matthew Barney's Japan in Drawing Restraint 9
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positions (2012) 20 (4): 1191–1213.
Published: 01 November 2012
... understandable
for Barthes in the s, when the West considered Japan’s popular culture,
characterized by things such as Godzilla and tin toys, cheap and cheesy. In
the twenty- rst century, however, Japanese animation, video games, manga...
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Between the Technique of Living an Endless Routine and the Madness of Absolute Degree Zero: Japanese Identity and the Crisis of Modernity in the 1990s
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positions (2000) 8 (2): 423–464.
Published: 01 May 2000
... place in society thanks, in part, to the global success of the
Japanese animation industry but, more significantly, because of the ongoing
intrusionofthevirtualintotheeveryday.Onecriticarguedthatincontempo-
rary Japan where everyone lives...
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positions (2001) 9 (2): 279–286.
Published: 01 May 2001
... of piles of plastic bags haunt Curacha in Manila by
Night, and finally in the world of Japanese animation where battle to sus-
tain ecology itself becomes the motivating force of the narrative in Princess
Mononoke. The contention between humans...
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Between Two Funerals: Zombie Temporality and Media Ecology in Japan
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positions (2021) 29 (2): 291–317.
Published: 01 May 2021
... be quick to use Shingon Buddhism (or even Shinto- ism, or a supposed special propensity for animism in Japanese culture ) as an explanation for the Tsukumogami- ki as much as for the Rikiishi and Raoh funerals, others have instead focused on the issue of a transforming economic environment. Theorist...
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Racist Attachments: Dakko-chan, Black Kitsch, and Kawaii Culture
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positions (2022) 30 (1): 159–187.
Published: 01 February 2022
... of contemporary Japanese popular culture, its disavowal of cultural and ethnic meaning through amalgamation. The anime character Sailor Moon, for example, appears white—with her blonde hair and blue eyes—but is framed as ethnically Japanese, bearing the name “Usagi Tsukino.” Because kawaii characters, media...
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Fantasies of the End of the World: The Politics of Repetition in the Films of Kurosawa Kiyoshi
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positions (2014) 22 (2): 429–460.
Published: 01 May 2014
.... “Superflat” is a self-proclaimed visual art movement in Japanese graphic arts closely associ-
ated with Murakami Takashi. It is typically understood as drawing heavily from the aes-
thetics of Japanese animation and contemporary consumer culture...
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