Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: JAPANESE ANIMATION: NARRATIVE, HISTORY, AND SOCIETY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Since the 1980s, animation has become the major force in Japanese popular culture, serving as a medium to address the diverse concerns of a high-tech media-focused society. This 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, the centrality of the fantastic and the grotesque, visions of a media- and technology-saturate society, and the prevalence of apocalyptic motifs and conspiracy theory. Cross-list: ASIA 472.