Tze-Yue G. Hu
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622090972
- eISBN:
- 9789882207721
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622090972.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
Japanese anime has long fascinated the world, and its mythical heroes and dazzling colors increasingly influence popular culture genres in the West. This book analyzes the “language-medium” of this ...
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Japanese anime has long fascinated the world, and its mythical heroes and dazzling colors increasingly influence popular culture genres in the West. This book analyzes the “language-medium” of this expressive platform and its many socio-cultural dimensions from a distinctly Asian frame of reference, tracing its layers of concentric radiation from Japan throughout Asia. The book's research, rooted in archival investigations, interviews with animators and producers in Japan as well as other Asian animation studios, and interdisciplinary research in linguistics and performance theory, shows how dialectical aspects of anime are linked to Japan's unique experience of modernity and its cultural associations in Asia, including its reliance on low-wage outsourcing. This study also provides insights on numerous Japanese secondary sources, as well as a number of original illustrations offered by animators and producers that were interviewed.Less
Japanese anime has long fascinated the world, and its mythical heroes and dazzling colors increasingly influence popular culture genres in the West. This book analyzes the “language-medium” of this expressive platform and its many socio-cultural dimensions from a distinctly Asian frame of reference, tracing its layers of concentric radiation from Japan throughout Asia. The book's research, rooted in archival investigations, interviews with animators and producers in Japan as well as other Asian animation studios, and interdisciplinary research in linguistics and performance theory, shows how dialectical aspects of anime are linked to Japan's unique experience of modernity and its cultural associations in Asia, including its reliance on low-wage outsourcing. This study also provides insights on numerous Japanese secondary sources, as well as a number of original illustrations offered by animators and producers that were interviewed.
Ae-Ri Yoon
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622099746
- eISBN:
- 9789882206793
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622099746.003.0007
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter presents the stories of animators in South Korea (hereafter Korea), who experience the negotiation process of globalization both in their work and daily lives and feel them deeply. For ...
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This chapter presents the stories of animators in South Korea (hereafter Korea), who experience the negotiation process of globalization both in their work and daily lives and feel them deeply. For the past 40 years or more, the Korean animation industry has widely been known as a subcontractor for foreign production companies, mainly in the United States and Japan. However, today's Korean animation industry is experiencing a cultural transition driven by the logic of global capital. In response, the industry as a whole is trying to throw off the shackles of being a subcontractor and is aiming for creative agency. This has also caused various changes in the Korean public's perception of animation. Findings show that, in this cultural transition, due to Korea's particular historical and cultural circumstances, the Korean animators are encountering contradictory situations that are leading them into numerous negotiations between the values of the global and the national.Less
This chapter presents the stories of animators in South Korea (hereafter Korea), who experience the negotiation process of globalization both in their work and daily lives and feel them deeply. For the past 40 years or more, the Korean animation industry has widely been known as a subcontractor for foreign production companies, mainly in the United States and Japan. However, today's Korean animation industry is experiencing a cultural transition driven by the logic of global capital. In response, the industry as a whole is trying to throw off the shackles of being a subcontractor and is aiming for creative agency. This has also caused various changes in the Korean public's perception of animation. Findings show that, in this cultural transition, due to Korea's particular historical and cultural circumstances, the Korean animators are encountering contradictory situations that are leading them into numerous negotiations between the values of the global and the national.
J.P. Telotte
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813125862
- eISBN:
- 9780813135540
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813125862.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Animators work within a strictly defined, limited space that requires difficult artistic decisions. The blank frame presents a dilemma for all animators, and the decision as to what to include and ...
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Animators work within a strictly defined, limited space that requires difficult artistic decisions. The blank frame presents a dilemma for all animators, and the decision as to what to include and leave out raises important questions about artistry, authorship, and cultural influence. This book explores how animation has confronted the blank template, and how responses to that confrontation have changed. Focusing on American animation, the book tracks the development of animation in line with changing cultural attitudes toward space and examines innovations that elevated the medium from a novelty to a fully realized art form. From Winsor McCay and the Fleischer brothers to the Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros., and Pixar Studios, this book explores the contributions of those who invented animation, those who refined it, and those who, in the current digital age, are using it to redefine the very possibilities of cinema.Less
Animators work within a strictly defined, limited space that requires difficult artistic decisions. The blank frame presents a dilemma for all animators, and the decision as to what to include and leave out raises important questions about artistry, authorship, and cultural influence. This book explores how animation has confronted the blank template, and how responses to that confrontation have changed. Focusing on American animation, the book tracks the development of animation in line with changing cultural attitudes toward space and examines innovations that elevated the medium from a novelty to a fully realized art form. From Winsor McCay and the Fleischer brothers to the Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros., and Pixar Studios, this book explores the contributions of those who invented animation, those who refined it, and those who, in the current digital age, are using it to redefine the very possibilities of cinema.
J. P. Telotte
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813125862
- eISBN:
- 9780813135540
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813125862.003.0003
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter discusses a series of case studies that are arranged in a rough chronological fashion and focus on the problems and potentials of animating space. It takes a detailed look at the works ...
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This chapter discusses a series of case studies that are arranged in a rough chronological fashion and focus on the problems and potentials of animating space. It takes a detailed look at the works of Winsor McCay, a pioneer animator. It also frames the achievements his most famous and most studied film, Gertie the Dinosaur, which it represents in the context of his other key efforts.Less
This chapter discusses a series of case studies that are arranged in a rough chronological fashion and focus on the problems and potentials of animating space. It takes a detailed look at the works of Winsor McCay, a pioneer animator. It also frames the achievements his most famous and most studied film, Gertie the Dinosaur, which it represents in the context of his other key efforts.
Stefan Leins
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780226523392
- eISBN:
- 9780226523569
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226523569.003.0008
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This chapter elaborates on the role of the financial analysts for their host institution. It addresses the fact that, despite usually being presented as neutral observers and interpreters of the ...
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This chapter elaborates on the role of the financial analysts for their host institution. It addresses the fact that, despite usually being presented as neutral observers and interpreters of the market, analysts have an active role in promoting investments. This active role shapes the everyday life of financial analysts and materializes in the way they think about investing activities. Also, in their role as animators, analysts actively influence market volatility and liquidity.Less
This chapter elaborates on the role of the financial analysts for their host institution. It addresses the fact that, despite usually being presented as neutral observers and interpreters of the market, analysts have an active role in promoting investments. This active role shapes the everyday life of financial analysts and materializes in the way they think about investing activities. Also, in their role as animators, analysts actively influence market volatility and liquidity.
Chaim Noy
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199398973
- eISBN:
- 9780199399000
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199398973.003.0006
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
Most of the commutative entries in the book are not authored individually, but are produced jointly by a number of visitors (usually family members, classmates, etc.). The co-produced and co-written ...
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Most of the commutative entries in the book are not authored individually, but are produced jointly by a number of visitors (usually family members, classmates, etc.). The co-produced and co-written entries sometimes index these interactions and at other times conceal them. Following Goffman’s dramaturgical model, the chapter illustrates and adds to the social roles involved in producing visitors’ “faces” on the pages of the book as coherent and proficient utterances. The chapter proceeds to discuss playful utterances, suggesting the important ideological function of “light” or “playful” commemorative texts within the otherwise somber and serious environment. Finally, the chapter addresses visitors’ drawings—the visual grammar that they reveal and how they contribute to the retelling and amplification of ethnonational Zionist narrative.Less
Most of the commutative entries in the book are not authored individually, but are produced jointly by a number of visitors (usually family members, classmates, etc.). The co-produced and co-written entries sometimes index these interactions and at other times conceal them. Following Goffman’s dramaturgical model, the chapter illustrates and adds to the social roles involved in producing visitors’ “faces” on the pages of the book as coherent and proficient utterances. The chapter proceeds to discuss playful utterances, suggesting the important ideological function of “light” or “playful” commemorative texts within the otherwise somber and serious environment. Finally, the chapter addresses visitors’ drawings—the visual grammar that they reveal and how they contribute to the retelling and amplification of ethnonational Zionist narrative.
