[Cwgrad-announcements] Graduate Seminar in Anime

[Gabriela Jauregui]

That seminar sounds rad... Akira Lippit is my mentor and friend and
Kaja Silverman is really interesting... I would highly recommend this
seminar for those of you who don't really want to take a seminar in
comp lit or english but still have to--it probably won't relate to
your work directly but you'll watch some AMAZING anime and talk about
it, how fun is that??!!
g

On 2/3/07, Andrew Winer <andrew.winer at ucr.edu> wrote:
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> Dear MFAs,
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> Another CPLT offering...
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> Andrew
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> "Japanimation, Feminist Theory, Digital Culture"
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> CPLT215B Issues in Contemporary Theory
> Spring Quarter 2007
> Margherita Long
> Thursday 5:10 - 8:00 p.m.
> HMNSS 1502
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> What makes Japanese animation so compelling? According to artists and
> writers at Gainax Studios (Neon Genesis, Otaku no Video), anime accomplishes
> nothing short of a transformation of vision through dense, "superflat"
> images devoid of perspective and hierarchy. This course examines Gainax's
> famous claims in essays by Murakami Takashi and Azumi Hiroki, in artwork
> from the 2005 "Exploding Subculture" international art exhibition, and in
> classic anime series like Serial Experiments Lain and Kanon. We will pay
> special attention to the phenomenon of "moe," the obsessive interest by male
> anime fans for hyper-cute "phallic girl" heroines. To date, even those
> critical of Gainax discourse have agreed that it describes something both
> new and sexually perverted. Our aim is to open the conversation to feminist
> theories to ask whether this is really true. On perversion and its ability
> to generate difference and newness we will read Sigmund Freud, Luce
> Irigaray, Kaja Silverman, Mari Kotani, and Elizabeth Grosz. For feminist
> theories of ethics in an age of digital connectivity we will read Wendy
> Chun, Lisa Nakamura, Midori Matsui, Sherry Turkle and Vikki Kirby. We will
> also consider the feminist implications of claiming that what is new about
> anime and manga results from Japan's unique nuclear experience, reading
> essays on visuality and apocalypse by Akira Lippit, William Haver and
> Okamoto Tarô. All Japanese readings and films are available in English.
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