EAST 361 FMST 398

Anime Media Histories
SYLLABUS: EAST 361 FMST 398 (2017).pdf

COURSE PACKET ZIP: Weeks-Readings-Anime.zip

PAPER 1 GUIDELINES: Paper 1 Guidelines.pdf

WEEKLY READINGS:

WEEK 1: SEPTEMBER 6: Choose Your Own Episode (Thomas Lamarre)
—Thomas Lamarre, “Anime,” in The Japanese Cinema Book, ed. Hideaki Fujiki and Alstair Reynolds (London: BFI, forthcoming)

SECTION 1: HISTORY & ANIME

WEEK 2: SEPTEMBER 13: Why Anime? (Marc Steinberg)

—Thomas Lamarre, “Introduction,” The Anime Machine (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009), xiii‐xxxvii.
—Jean‐Louis Baudry, “Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematographic Apparatus” in Philip Rosen ed., Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986), 286‐298.
—Toshiya Ueno, “Japanimation and Techno-Orientalism”
Further Reading:
—Maureen Furniss, “The Culture of Japanese Animation” from A New History of Animation (New York: Thames and Hudson, 2016), pp. 388-404.

WEEK 3: SEPTEMBER 20: Prewar Animation: Attraction and Narration (Thomas Lamarre)
—Tom Gunning, “The Cinema of Attractions: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde,” in Early Cinema: Space, Frame, Narrative, eds. Thomas Elsaesser and Adam Barker (London: BFI, 1990), 56-62.
—Imamura Taihei, “Japanese Cartoon Films,” Mechademia 9: Origins (University of Minnesota Press, 2014), 107-124.
—Sergei Eisenstein, Eisenstein on Disney, trans. Jay Leyda (London: Methuen, 1988), 41-62.
—Ōtsuka Eiji, “An Unholy Alliance of Disney and Eisenstein: The Fascist Origins of Otaku Culture,” Mechademia 8: Tezuka’s Manga Life (University of Minnesota Press, 2013), 251-227.

WEEK 4: SEPTEMBER 27: Toei and Tezuka (Marc Steinberg)
—Marc Steinberg, “Limiting Movement, Inventing Anime” in Anime’s Media Mix (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012), 1-36.
—Miriam Hansen, “The Mass Production of the Senses: Classical Cinema as Vernacular Modernism” Modernism/Modernity 6.2 (1999) 59-77.
—Natsume Fusanosuke, “Where Is Tezuka?: A Theory of Manga Expression” in Mechademia 8: Tezuka’s Manga Life (University of Minnesota Press, 2013), pp. 89-107
Further Reading:
—Jonathan Clements, Anime: A History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 133-156.

SECTION 2: MEDIA TECHNOLOGY

WEEK 5: OCTOBER 4: Television as Social Technology (Thomas Lamarre)
—Cavell, Stanley. “The Fact of Television.” Daedalus (1982): 75-96.
—Yoshimi Shun’ya. “Television and Nationalism: Historical Change in the National Domestic TV Formation of Postwar Japan.” European Journal of Cultural Studies 6:4 (2003), 459-487.
—Kumiko Saitō, “Magic, Shōjo, and Metamorphosis: Magical Girl Anime and the Challenges of Changing Gender Identities in Japanese Society.” The Journal of Asian Studies 73 (01), 143–164
Further Reading:
—Matt Hills. "When Television Doesn't Overflow ‘Beyond the Box’: The Invisibility of ‘Momentary’ Fandom." Critical Studies in Television 5:1 (2010), 97-110.

WEEK 6: OCTOBER 11: Musical Anime and Idol Culture in the 1980s (Marc Steinberg)
—Jean Baudrillard, “Simulacra and Simulations” from Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings, ed. Mark Poster (Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, 1988), 166-184.
—Patrick Galbraith and Jason Karlin, “Introduction: The Mirror of Idols and Celebrity” in Idols and Celebrity in Japanese Media Culture, eds. Patrick W. Galbraith and Jason G. Karlin (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), 1-32.
—David Marshall, “The Promotion and Presentation of the Self: Celebrity as Marker of Presentational Media,” Celebrity Studies, 1:1 (2010), 35–48.
—Judith Butler, “The Body You Want: An Interview With Judith Butler” in Artforum (November 1992), 82-89.

Further Reading:
—Patrick Galbraith, “Idols: The Image of Desire in Japanese Consumer Capitalism” in Patrick W. Galbraith and Jason G. Karlin, eds. Idols and Celebrity in Japanese Media Culture (Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 185-208.
—Shinji Miyadai, “Transformation of Semantics in the History of Japanese Subcultures since 1992,” trans. Shion Kono, Mechademia 6: User Enhanced (University of Minnesota Press, 2011), pp. 231-258.

WEEK 7: OCTOBER 18: Original Video Animation, or the OVA (Thomas Lamarre)

Michael Newman, “Three Phases” and “Video as Alternative,” from Video Revolutions: On the History of a Medium (Columbia University Press, 2014), 1-5; 18-29
John Thornton Caldwell, “Excessive Style: The Crisis of Network Television,” from Televisuality: Style, Crisis, and Authority in American Television (Rutgers University Press, 1995), 3-31
Anne Friedberg, “The End of Cinema: Multimedia and Technological Change,” in Reinventing Cinema Studies, eds. Christine Gledhill and Linda Williams (London: Arnold, 2000), 438-452.

WEEK 8: OCTOBER 25: Media Mix in the 1990s and 2000s (Marc Steinberg)

Bryan Hikari Hartzheim, “Pretty Cure and the Magical Girl Media Mix,” The Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 49, No. 5, 2016, 1059-1085
Nagaru Tanigawa, Prologue and Chapter 1, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (fan translation)
Recommended:
Linda Hutcheon, “Beginning to Theorize Adaptation” in A Theory of Adaptation (New York: Routledge, 2006), 1-32.

WEEK 9: NOVEMBER 1: Virtual Worlds and Practices of Self (Thomas Lamarre)

Hubert Dreyfus, ‘Nihilism on the Information Highway,’ from On the Internet (Routlege, 2001), 73-89.
McNeill, Will, “Care for the Self: Originary Ethics in Heidegger and Foucault,” Philosophy Today 42: 1 (Spring 1998).
Azuma Hiroki, “The Animalization of Otaku Culture,” trans. Yuriko Furuhata and Marc Steinberg, Mechademia 2: Networks of Desire (University of Minnesota, 2007, 75-187.
Teri Silvio, “Animation: The New Performance?” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 20:2 (2010), 422-438.

WEEK 10: NOVEMBER 8: Cyberpunk, Japan (Guest Lecture: Takayuki Tatsumi, Keio University)

Yamano Kōichi, “Japanese SF, Its Originality and Orientation (1969),” trans. Kazuko Behrens, Darko Suvin and Takayuki Tatsumi, Science Fiction Studies 21: 1 (1994): 67-80.
Tatsumi Takayuki, “Junk Art City,” from Full Metal Apache: Transactions between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006), 112-122.
Tatsumi Takayuki, “Transnational Interactions: District 9, or Apaches in Johannesburg,” in Science Fiction Double Feature: The Science Fiction Film as Cult Text, ed. J. P. Telotte and Gerald Duchovnay (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2015).

WEEK 11: NOVEMBER 15: Regionality, Platforms and Distribution (Marc Steinberg)

Chung, Hye Jean. “Media Heterotopia and Transnational Filmmaking: Mapping Real and Virtual Worlds.” Cinema Journal 51: 4 (Summer 2012), 87-109.
Stevie Suan, “Anime’s Performativity: Diversity through Conventionality in a Global Media-Form” in animation:an interdisciplinary journal 2017, Vol. 12(1), 62–79
Jinying Li, “The Interface Affect of a Contact Zone: Danmaku on Video-Streaming Platforms” in Asiascape: Digital Asia (forthcoming)
Further Reading:
Ramon Lobato, “Introduction: The New Video Geography” in Ramón Lobato & James Meese, eds. Geoblocking and Global Videoculture (Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2016), pp. 10-22.
Thomas Lamarre, “Regional TV: Affective Media Geographies,” Asiascape: Digital Asia 2, no. 1-2 (2015): 93-126.

WEEK 12: November 22: Fanthropologies (Thomas Lamarre)

Martyn Hammersley, “Ethnography: Problems and Prospects,” Ethnography and Education 1.1 (2006), 3-14.
Adrienne Evans and Mafalda Stasi, “Desperately Seeking Methods: New Directions in Fan Studies Research,” Participations 11.2 (2014), 4-23.
Hiromi Tanaka and Saori Ishida, “Enjoying Manga as Fujoshi: Exploring its Innovation and Potential for Social Change from a Gender Perspective,” International Journal of Behavioral Science 10.1 (2015), 77-85.
Patrick Galbraith and Thomas Lamarre, “Otakuology: A Dialogue,” Mechademia 5: Fanthropologies (University of Minnesota Press, 2010), 360-374.

WEEK 13: NOVEMBER 29: World-Style and the Everyday (Marc Steinberg)

Takeshi Okamoto, “Otaku Tourism and the Anime Pilgrimage Phenomenon in Japan,” Japan Forum, 27:1 (2016), 12-36.
Tsunehiro Uno, “Imagination after the Earthquake: Japan's Otaku Culture in the 2010s,” trans. Jeffrey C. Guarneri, Verge: Studies in Global Asias 1:1 (2015), 114-136
Ramona Bajema, “Brave New Sanriku: Recovering From 3.11,” in Planetary Atmospheres and Urban Society After Fukushima, eds. Christophe Thouny and Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), 73-94.

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