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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Japanese Animation"”.
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Beyond Subcultural Community: A Sociological Analysis of Japanese Animation Fans and Fandoms
… media fandom. Through ethnographic research on Japanese animation fans in Mexico and Canada and a theoretical framework informed by the oeuvre of Pierre Bourdieu, I propose that Japanese animation fandom is not a bounded group, but rather a field of consumption, that is, a space of consumer …
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Protecting your eyes : censorship and moral standards of decency in Japan and the United States as reflected in children's media
Introduction: Anime (Japanese animation) and manga (Japanese comic books) are extremely popular in Japan amongst consumers of all ages. In America and other non-Japanese countries, the international anime and manga fanbase is rapidly expanding. Yet, in some Western countries such as the United …
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System for rapid subtitling
… timing the monologue. Subtitling a 20-minute Japanese animation resulted in similar savings. While subtitling is widely practiced, traditional speech boundary detection algorithms have proven insufficient for adoption when subtitling audiovisual sequences. Human-edited timing of subtitles is a …
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Consuming Japan: Cultural Relations and the Globalizing of America, 1973-1993
… dissertation explores the U.S. encounter with Japanese goods in the 1970s and 1980s. It argues that this encounter transformed social and cultural life in the United States by ideologically and materially introducing Americans to their first intense, sustained engagement with the processes of …
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Beautiful Things in the World: A Semiotic Analysis on Disney and Japanese 2D Feature-Length Animation through Creative Practice
Disney and Japanese feature-length animations, which have led the world's animation markets for a long time, show their own unique, inherent characteristics in the representation of animated images. As such, the analysis on the characteristics of the signification system of Disney and Japanese …
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Japanese Cinema as Mass Art: An Export of Mass Cinema
… the distribution and consumption of contemporary Japanese cinema in the UK. Through the study of aesthetics it seeks to identify the ways in which content and current distribution methods suit different markets. Noël Carroll’s definition of cinema and contemporary media as ‘mass art’ has informed …
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Relevant abuse? Investigating the effects of an abusive subtitling procedure on the perception of TV anime using eye tracker and questionnaire
… popular with amateur subtitlers of anime (Japanese animation), pop-up gloss has come to percolate into commercially released anime DVD. This thesis investigates the question as to what effect the use of pop-up gloss has on viewer perception of TV anime in terms of positive cognitive effects …
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From score to song—The rise of the 'star composer' and the role of music in contemporary anime
From the late 1980s onward, Japanese animation (anime) has increasingly been consumed as a ‘global’ product, with iconic films such as Akira and Ghost in the Shell achieving cult-like status on both the art-cinema circuit as well as via home-video releases. The 2010s have seen anime consumption …
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Adapting Anime: Transnational Media between Japan and the United States
This dissertation examines Japanese animation, or anime, as an example of how a contemporary media product crosses national and cultural borders and becomes globalized. Bringing together the theories of Hiroki Azuma and Susan J. Napier, it develops a theory called the "database fantasyscape" as a …
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A Cosplayed Life: Subcultural Influences on Racial and Heteronormative Structures in Everyday Life
… Specifically, it is an activity where fans of Japanese animation create a costume and take on the persona of a character they like. Cosplay can be done where ever a cosplayer wishes, however, it is typically performed at an anime convention. The social interactions that occurred at the cosplay …
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The Japanimated Folktale: Analysis Concerning the Use and Adaptation of Folktale Characteristics in <i>Anime</i>
… examine the relationship between folk tales and Japanese animation, or <em>anime</em>. In spite of the popular association between animation and adolescence, animated television series and films have a dynamic and compelling relationship with various age groups and nationalities. Additionally, …