Course Description:
This course uses Japanese Manga cartoons and Anime animated movies as modern mirrors that reflect the Japanese experience of rapid economic and social transformation over the past 150 years. Starting with the examination of ancient Japanese style of visual expression we will trace how Manga and Anime sketch out a parallel world that is linked both historically and culturally to the imagined community of the Japanese nation-state. Taught in English.
Reflective Narrative:
In this class, we learned about the history of Manga and Anime in Japan. Where it originated in Animation, the people and companies involved, and how manga was started historically. We read examples of manga, as well as anime, and the different genres and themes that were portrayed in them. This class was great as a culture course because, not only does it cover historical aspects of Japanese culture, it also covers modern culture as well. For this class, we had a final project where we explained and analyzed different themes and character types present in Japanese Anime and Manga.
This course uses Japanese Manga cartoons and Anime animated movies as modern mirrors that reflect the Japanese experience of rapid economic and social transformation over the past 150 years. Starting with the examination of ancient Japanese style of visual expression we will trace how Manga and Anime sketch out a parallel world that is linked both historically and culturally to the imagined community of the Japanese nation-state. Taught in English.
Reflective Narrative:
In this class, we learned about the history of Manga and Anime in Japan. Where it originated in Animation, the people and companies involved, and how manga was started historically. We read examples of manga, as well as anime, and the different genres and themes that were portrayed in them. This class was great as a culture course because, not only does it cover historical aspects of Japanese culture, it also covers modern culture as well. For this class, we had a final project where we explained and analyzed different themes and character types present in Japanese Anime and Manga.