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Main Topics
Historical influences toward Japanese
art
Contemporary Japan & popular culture
Japanese cinema
Origins of anime
Aesthetic characteristics of anime
Re-ocurring themes of anime
Anime & global identity
Eishi
Eizan
Geisha at the
Matsumoto Teahouse
ban, c. early 1790s
Hanging Picture
in Horinouchi.
ban, 1807
KabukiTheatre
Kabuki Theater
Bunraku Theater
A round bunraku (puppet) theater, in Sewa village, Kumamoto Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan. Photographer: Michael S.Yamashita
Date: April, 1993
BunrakuPuppetTheatre
Japanese Bunraku Puppet Theater Several puppeteers manipulate Bunraku a traditional form of puppetry in
Japan. Photographer: Jack Fields 1981
Kibyoshi
Nishikawa Sukenobu
The Heart of the Pond /Ehon ike no kokoro/
1739
a book, sumizurie, an illustration
Author unknown
Love, the Pavilion of Water
Chrysanthemums /Enshoku Suikotei/
c.1840-1850
a book, nishikie, 123x155mm
Music;
J-Pop
Enka
Karaoke
Art;
Manga
Anime - Ghibli Studios, Gainax
Avant Garde
Historical Development of
Japanese Cinema
Considered to be a new means of
expression, but what it expressed was old.
Heavily influenced by the traditional
pictorial and narrative arts.
Strong tradition of storytelling and
performance.
Influence
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Origins of anime
e-makimono
(picture-scroll
narratives)
Kabuki theatre
The Noh tradition (theatrical
masks)
Bunraku (puppet theatre)
Ukiyo Zoshi (the novel)
Manga (graphic novel)
Other Influences
German expressionism
Early French animation (Emile Cohl)
Russian animation (Yuri Norstein)
American comics
Disney animation
Cinema genres
- film-noir, the gangster, the western
Contemporary social & cultural issues
Manga
flowing pictures
frivolous pictures
comics
graphic novels.
Manga
Manga Genres
Sport
Gangster
Romance
Gourmet
Historical
Erotic
Satirical
Cyberpunk
Mecha
Frame Syntax
Meaning emerging from the
syntactical arrangement of the
frame
The composition of visual elements
within the frame
The relation of one frame to another
across a sequence of frames
http://www.cjas.org/~leng/texhnolyze.htm
Space
Character Aesthetics
Round faces and simplicity of features
Stylistic features developed by manga artist
Osamu Tezuka
The origins of these features can also be
found in the Noh (mask) tradition of
Kabuki theatre.
GhostintheShell(1995,Dir.MamoruOshii)
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis (in animation) legitimizes the
process
of connecting apparently unrelated images,
forging
original relationships between lines, objects
etc, and
disrupting established notions of classical
storytelling
(by collapsing) the illusion of physical space,
metamorphosis destabilizes the image,
conflating
Apocalypse
The vision of worldwide
destruction, expressed as
material, spiritual or
pathological catastrophe.
Eg: Akira
Akira(1988,Dir.Katsuhiro Otomo)
Spirited Away
Director
Hayao Miyazaki (2002)
a phantasmagoric fairy-tale
PrincessMononoke(1997,Dir.HayaoMiyazaki)
SpiritedAway(2001,Dir.HayaoMiyazaki)