Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: JAPANESE ANIMATION: NARRATIVE, HISTORY, AND SOCIETY ***** Seminar explores the social, historical, and aesthetic significance of Japanese animation. Topics include gender and sexuality, ecological consciousness and religious imagination, folklore and history, viewership and fandom, centrality of the fantastic and grotesque, visions of a media- and technology- saturated society, and prevalence of apocalyptic motifs and conspiracy theory. ***** Also offered as ASIA 472 and HART 472. ***** Limited Enrollment. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Thal, Nakatani