In his 1986 analysis of Foucault, philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1988) asks what the struggle for modern subjectivity might look like given that the subject must resist, on the one hand, the impulse to individualize themselves by exerting power over others…
Tag Archive for Japanese animation
Hideaki Anno’s Train Sets
by River Seager • October 31, 2023 • 0 Comments
Better known today as the director of the Japanese media franchise Neon Genesis Evangelion, which began in the early 1990’s and still runs, Hideaki Anno initially gained acclaim as a highly talented animator of vehicles. For instance, his student-film At…
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013)
by Eesha Muddasani • June 6, 2022 • 4 Comments
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya is a film directed by Isao Takahata in 2013, and it is based on a Japanese folktale called “The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter.” Commenting on the consequences of prioritizing wealth, the film portrays…
Changing Perspective(s) on Japanese Animation
by Marco Pellitteri • June 24, 2019 • 0 Comments
Review of Masao Yokota and Tze-yue G. Hu (eds.). Japanese Animation: East Asian Perspectives. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2013. This book was put together by a prominent clinical psychologist with a long experience in the psychological dimensions of animation…
The Late Release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in Japan and Its Impact on Post-War Animation
by Samuel Kaczorowski • December 11, 2017 • 6 Comments
If it is difficult to imagine today the impact that Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937, by David Hand) had in the United States at the end of the 1930s, it is even more difficult to consider the effects it had…