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The soul of Anime: collaborative creativity and Japan's media success story

by  Ian Condry

Description

In The Soul of Anime, Ian Condry explores the emergence of anime, Japanese animated film and television, as a global cultural phenomenon. Drawing on ethnographic research including interviews with artists at some of Tokyo's leading animation studios - such as Madhouse, Gonzo, Aniplex, and Studio Ghibli - Condry discusses how anime's fictional characters and worlds become platforms for collaborative creativity. He argues that the global success of Japanese animation has grown out of a collective social energy that operates across industries - including those that produce film, television, manga (comic books), and toys and other licensed merchandise - and connects fans to the creators of anime. For Condry, this collective social energy is the soul of anime

Table Of Contents

  • Collaborative networks, personal futures
  • Characters and worlds as creative platforms
  • Early directions in postwar anime
  • When anime robots became real
  • What makes a studio cutting edge : the value of the gutter
  • Dark energy : what overseas fans reveal about the copyright wars
  • Love revolution : Otaku fans in Japan
  • Future anime: collaborative creativity and cultural action

Subject

Social aspects / Animation (Cinematography) / Popular culture / Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Details

Part of Series Experimental futures
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2013
Language English
Material x, 241 p.
ISBN 0822353946 / 9780822353942
Location
TCDC Bangkok - General Collection

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