Search Results for animation aesthetics

... 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...

...—ranging from subtle to overt—against works of art about the female body, in which aesthetic judgments take on a moral character. The article begins with a discussion of Kim Soyoung's new woman: her first song (2004), which locates the possibilities for subject formation that the figure of the new Korean...

... kind of economy.16 For many, anime occupies a privileged position in the emergence of a media- ecological understanding. The etymology of animation often evoked the question of giving life, but recent work on anime specifically has focused that idea by looking at aesthetic and technological factors...

...Angela Zito In autumn 2010, I reread the fifty-four issue-books of positions for its use of images. This essay demonstrates that where the image's gestures animate, supplement, and haunt the written text, we find the edge of our critical practice. Journals, like framed shots, have their limitations...

... in the feminist gap. Gaps, this time in the form of failures, are also central to The Last Korean Animation: Wonderful Days and the Aesthetics of Global Monop- UNCORRECTED PROOF positions 33:2 May 2025 200 oly Capitalism by Zachary Gottesman. Despite being South Korea s most expensive animation project to date...

... media ranging from comedy to commercial advertising to anime and manga. Yet kawaii culture has played an especially crucial role in the circulation of blackface by lending racist caricatures a “cute” shape explicitly designed to inspire feelings of affection. As evidence, during the height of the Dakko...

... is a postdoctoral fellow at Soka University of America. He wrote his dissertation on Korean animation and has published work in journals including the Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, Animation, and the Journal of Settler Colonial Studies and has presented research at conferences including the Association...

...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...

... described It¯o as an unwitting participant in any political activity, a hapless character preoccupied with arcane historical concerns. An argument for his innocence has been found in the endear- ing cartoonlike animal subjects that populate his...

... the conduits of ideological production; in his estimation ideology is a rehabilitated concept and site of political- aesthetic intervention. If you like Sorace s positing of the political- aesthetic intervention in postsocialist ideology, welcome to third- century China! Yiren Zheng s Sounding...

... is the author of The Dream of a Contemporary Ayuthaya: Angkhan Kalayanaphong’s Poetics of Dissent, Aesthetic Nationalism, and Thai Literary Modernity (2009). Her book project “Ghostly Desires” examines how Buddhist-­coded anachronisms of haunting figure...

...Liu Kang Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Aesthetics and Chinese Marxism Liu Kang Marxist aesthetics has been a central concern in China’s cultural scene for much of the twentieth century. Obviously, Mao Zedong’s...

... of voice, language, writing, and music within the larger context of Six Dynasties thought and aesthetics. Despite the wide range of vocalizations (e.g., wailing, the tiger's roar) associated with whistling in premodern China, the whistling examined in this article refers to a particular vocal art commonly...

... in animated films during the Cultural Revolution. What to animate and what not to animate was not just an aesthetic issue, but also a political one that involved confrontation and violence during the tumultuous ten years. Du ∣∣ The Dis/appearance...

... consciousness, raising a number of aesthetic, thematic, and ethical issues (e.g., flatness, cinematic truth [ vérité ], “non-Aristotelian” dramaturgy [Brecht]). Among the numerous issues Kawase’s introspective style raises, the author focuses on its nonsubjective grammar and its (latent) critique of the liberal...

... avoid confronting. Yang Lian, the poet whose work with John Cayley closes this issue, claims in his aesthetic politics of transliteration that a common poetic space should and can be cre- ated. Though not as tangible perhaps as Tokyo’s Shibuya...

.... In her “The Dis/appearance of Animals in Animated Films during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966 – 76,” Du attempts to demonstrate a negative: talking, anthropomor- phic, child-­friendly animal characters got banished. In their place appeared...

...Yumiko Iida 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 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 Yumiko Iida The aesthetic is at oncethevery secret prototype...

... Introduction Ratheesh Radhakrishnan The present special issue on the Aesthetics of Space in India Cinema brings together selected articles presented at the CinemaSpace conference organized by the Chao Center for Asian Studies (Rice University...

...- cultural communication and mutual respect. These approaches toward translation as an intercultural exchange can be argued as being attempts to understand the possibility of the power of the weak derived from below, by way of aesthetics embedded in respective local context. To them, these aesthetic forms...