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Queer/ing Animation

A Roundtable on Yuri!!! on Ice (Part 2)

by Jacqueline Ristola • January 9, 2017 • 0 Comments

Yuri!!! on Ice is a 2016 anime that has captured a global audience through its beautifully choreographed animation, a strong emotional story, and compelling gay representation. Animation Studies 2.0 blog contributors Jacqueline Ristola, Mihaela Mihailova, Caitlin Casiello, and Evelyn Hielkema came together…

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Queer/ing Animation

A Roundtable on Yuri!!! on Ice (Part 1)

by Jacqueline Ristola • January 2, 2017 • 0 Comments

Yuri!!! on Ice is a 2016 anime that has captured a global audience through its beautifully choreographed animation, a strong emotional story, and compelling gay representation. Animation Studies 2.0 blog contributors Jacqueline Ristola, Mihaela Mihailova, Caitlin Casiello, and Evelyn Hielkema came together…

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Queer/ing Animation

Gaps in the Ice: Queer Subtext and Fandom Text in Yuri!!! on Ice

by Catilin Casiello • December 26, 2016 • 14 Comments

Yuri!!! on Ice, undoubtedly the breakout hit of the Fall 2016 TV anime season, follows the dramatic comeback of figure skater Katsuki Yūri and his relationship with his hero and coach Victor Nikiforov. In English-speaking fandom, where political concerns about…

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Queer/ing Animation

The Revolutionary Potential of Lesbian Love in Yuri Kuma Arashi

by Jacqueline Ristola • December 19, 2016 • 0 Comments

Ginko and Kureha at the end of Yuri Kuma Arashi

The work of anime director Kunihiko Ikuhara is not only known for being deeply symbolic, but also for having outstanding representations of lesbians in anime. This is significant because LGBT visibility is quite low in Japan. Gay marriage, for instance,…

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Queer/ing Animation

“Trans”formers: Reading the Rescue Bots

by Nichola Dobson • December 15, 2016 • 3 Comments

I’ve written here before about some of the children’s animation which my son consumes and, as he gets older (he’s almost 5), we all become exposed to more sophisticated shows aimed at older children. Thankfully, many of these shows are…

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Queer/ing Animation

#GiveElsaAGirlfriend and the Importance of Mainstream Queer Cartoons

by Bethan Jones • December 12, 2016 • 1 Comment

In fan studies, we often talk about fans being ‘poachers’ of texts (Jenkins 1992). Fans, we argue, lift bits and pieces from texts and create their own works: Sherlock becomes a detective in a high school; Edward and Bella become billionaire…

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Queer/ing Animation

Using Animation as a Platform for Queer Awareness

by Kate Jessop • December 5, 2016 • 3 Comments

Witnessing the outpouring of grief in the queer community after the death of David Bowie made me realize just how much he had meant to a generation and beyond in regards to giving people permission to explore their gender identity,…

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Animation & the Comic Book

Conveying Time and Movement within the Comic Book and the Animated Frame

by Craig Smith • November 28, 2016 • 3 Comments

The early twentieth century bore witness not only to the emergence of the ‘standalone’ printed comic book, but also to the birth of the animated film. In many ways, comics have often been associated with their moving image counterparts, as…

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Animation & the Comic Book

Sin City: When Comics and Film Collide

by Veronique Sina • November 21, 2016 • 4 Comments

In general, comic book to film adaptations may be defined as adaptations of drawn comic strips and comic book series for the medium of film (Marschall 2002: 103). As this definition implies, there are two basic aspects that seem to…

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Animation & the Comic Book, Documentary

Deterrent Versus Disclosure: The ‘No Way’ Campaign Comic and Nowhere Line: Voices from Manus Island

by Nina Mickwitz • November 14, 2016 • 0 Comments

Lukas Schrank’s animated short, Nowhere Line: Voices from Manus Island (2015), uses recorded mobile phone conversations as both source and sound track, to tell the stories of two detainees in one of the Australian government’s notorious offshore refugee camps. This…

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