Event overview
'The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan's Media Success Story'. Ian Condry Associate Professor, Foreign Languages and Literatures, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract:
Anime--Japanese animated films and TV shows--illustrates some of the central dynamics of collaborative creativity in today's media mix world. The talk is based on ethnographic fieldwork in Tokyo's anime studios, and will explore the making of anime through a logic of characters, premises, and worlds. The term "soul" came up frequently in discussions of anime production styles, and in the connections between anime and other media forms, including manga (comics), video games, toys, light novels, and more. In our efforts to understand the
workings of media and society in a digital, transmedia, transnational era, the paper contends that we can come to a better understanding of the soul of anime if we see it as a broadly collaborative project, linking creators, producers, merchandisers, and fans, rather than as an expression of "Japaneseness."
Bio:
Ian Condry is a cultural anthropologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Foreign Languages and Literatures department. He is the author of Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization (Duke U Press, 2006), which has been published in Japanese translation by NTT Publications (Nihon no Hip-Hop, 2009).
He is currently completing a book on the making of anime. He founded the MIT Cool Japan research project which organizes international conferences, seminars, and arts events aimed at exploring the cultural connections, dangerous distortions and critical potential of popular culture. More info at: http://iancondry.com.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Oct 2009 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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