Japanese Aesthetics and Anime - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Japanese Aesthetics and Anime write by Dani Cavallaro. This book was released on 2013-01-17. Japanese Aesthetics and Anime available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study addresses the relationship between Japanese aesthetics, a field steeped in philosophy and traditional knowledge, and anime, a prominent part of contemporary popular culture. There are three premises: (1) the abstract concepts promoted by Japanese aesthetics find concrete expression at the most disparate levels of everyday life; (2) the abstract and the concrete coalesce in the visual domain, attesting to the visual nature of Japanese culture at large; and (3) anime can help us appreciate many aspects of Japan's aesthetic legacy, in terms of both its theoretical propositions and its visual, even tangible, aspects.
Anime Aesthetics
Anime Aesthetics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anime Aesthetics write by Alistair D. Swale. This book was released on 2015-08-10. Anime Aesthetics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Japanese animation has been given fulsome academic commentary in recent years. However, there is arguably a need for a more philosophically consistent and theoretically integrated engagement. While this book covers the key thinkers of contemporary aesthetic theory, it aims to reground reflection on anime within the aesthetics of R.G. Collingwood.
Anime and Its Roots in Early Japanese Monster Art
Anime and Its Roots in Early Japanese Monster Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anime and Its Roots in Early Japanese Monster Art write by Zília Papp. This book was released on 2010-02-01. Anime and Its Roots in Early Japanese Monster Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Japanese anime plays a major role in modern popular visual culture and aesthetics, yet this is the first study which sets out to put today’s anime in historical context by tracking the visual links between Edo- and Meiji- period painters and the post-war period animation and manga series ‘Gegegeno Kitaro’ by Mizuki Shigeru.
The Cool-Kawaii
The Cool-Kawaii - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cool-Kawaii write by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein. This book was released on 2012-07-10. The Cool-Kawaii available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the turn of the millennium, international youth culture is dominated by mainly two types of aesthetics: the African American cool, which, propelled by Hip-Hop music, has become the world's favorite youth culture; and the Japanese aesthetics of kawaii or cute, that is distributed internationally by Japan's powerful anime industry. The USA and Japan are cultural superpowers and global trendsetters because they make use of two particular concepts that hide complex structures under their simple surfaces and are difficult to define, but continue to fascinate the world: cool and kawaii. The Cool-Kawaii: Afro-Japanese Aesthetics and New World Modernity, by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, analyzes these attitudes and explains the intrinsic powers that are leading to a fusion of both aesthetics. Cool and kawaii are expressions set against the oppressive homogenizations that occur within official modern cultures, but they are also catalysts of modernity. Cool and kawaii do not refer us back to a pre-modern ethnic past. Just like the cool African American man has almost no relationship with traditional African ideas about masculinity, the kawaii shTjo is not the personification of the traditional Japanese ideal of the feminine, but signifies an ideological institution of women based on Japanese modernity in the Meiji period, that is, a feminine image based on westernization. At the same time, cool and kawaii do not transport us into a futuristic, impersonal world of hypermodernity based on assumptions of constant modernization. Cool and kawaii stand for another type of modernity, which is not technocratic, but rather 'Dandyist' and closely related to the search for human dignity and liberation.
Art in Anime
Art in Anime - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Art in Anime write by Dani Cavallaro. This book was released on 2011-12-28. Art in Anime available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Anime, hand-drawn or computer-animated Japanese cartoons, appears in television series, films, video, video games, and commercials, and represents most genres of fiction. This critical study explores anime's relationship with art from a twofold perspective. Drawing from categories as varied as romance, comedy, slice of life drama, science fiction, bildungsroman, and school drama, it examines anime's representation of characters pursuing diverse artistic activities and related aesthetic visions, focusing closely on the concepts of creativity, talent, expressivity and experimentation. Additionally, the analysis engages with anime's own artistry, proposing that those characters' endeavors provide metaphors for the aims and objectives pursued by anime itself as an evolving art form. The cross-cultural resonance of this work makes it relevant not only to anime fans and scholars, but also to those interested in the phenomenon of image-making.
