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ASIA 2512: Explorations of Japanese Animation Animated films and TV series\u00a0rank among Japan\u2019s most prominent forms of artistic expression and have become important exports in a transnational and transcultural global media market. The mass appeal and range of content in anime\u2014from kiddie cartoons to sophisticated feature films to philosophically complex sci-fi\u00a0to gruesomely violent pornography\u2014render it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page.alpha.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-978","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.figal-sensei.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.figal-sensei.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.figal-sensei.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.figal-sensei.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.figal-sensei.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/www.figal-sensei.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1202,"href":"http:\/\/www.figal-sensei.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/978\/revisions\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.figal-sensei.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Animated films and TV series\u00a0rank among Japan\u2019s most prominent forms of artistic expression and have become important exports in a transnational and transcultural global media market. The mass appeal and range of content in anime\u2014from kiddie cartoons to sophisticated feature films to philosophically complex sci-fi\u00a0to gruesomely violent pornography\u2014render it a significant object of study. While most Japanese animation constitutes light entertainment, many treat themes associated with \u201cserious art\u201d and ask\u00a0us to take them seriously even as we enjoy them lightly. While one risks taking the enjoyment out of any pop cultural form by submitting it to academic scrutiny, we will enjoin our study of anime in the belief that close analysis will enhance our enjoyment.\u00a0The field of anime is wide and the choices it presents are legion. The material for this course is thus necessarily selective while introducing\u00a0major genres; recurrent themes; important works; historical, cultural, and technical contexts; and scholarly approaches to anime. This course does not aim\u00a0to be comprehensive or up-to-date with the latest greatest anime. Rather, it selects\u00a0examples that,\u00a0while demonstrating techniques and traits of the medium, provoke issues of\u00a0history and memory; humans,\u00a0nature and technology; bodies and gender; speculative and apocalyptic visions. The works of Miyazaki Hayao receive special attention as noteworthy examples of feature-length animated films.<\/p>\n