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Journal of Anime and Manga StudiesIn W.J.T. Mitchell’s essay “Metapictures,” Mitchell claims that Diego Velásquez’s painting Las Meninas is “a veritable whirlpool of interpretive ‘aspects,’ switching and alternating the places of painter, beholder, and model, the viewer and the viewed ...
Katy Oliver
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Newtypes, Angels, and Human Instrumentality: The Mecha Genre and its Apocalyptic Bodies
Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, 2023 This paper argues that the mecha genre is fixated on psychedelic and abstract imagery of supernatural human bodies, the destruction or transcendence of which often have bring about new political and social epochs.
River Seager
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Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, 2021 The satellite TV revolution in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the early 1990s precipitated the proliferation of foreign media broadcasts. Japanese anime dubbed into Arabic became the most-watched content in Emirati households, a trend that continues ...
Urwa Tariq, Sarah Laura Nesti Willard
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JAMS@AX 2025 Conference Report
Journal of Anime and Manga StudiesThis year, the Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS) hosted the JAMS@AX 2025 Academic Symposium, featuring scholars from multiple disciplines to audiences from all over the world. Since 2023, JAMS has continued to bring together fans and scholars at
Emilie Waggoner +2 more
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'Thinking of Spain in a flat way:' visiting Spain and Spanish cultural heritage through contemporary Japanese anime [PDF]
, 2017 This article contextualizes the representation of Spain and Spanish culture among Japanese cultural producers, particularly through the production of Japanese commercial animation (commonly named anime).
Hernandez-Perez, Manuel
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Towards Critical Occidentalism Studies: Re-inventing the 'West' and 'Japan' in Mangaesque Popular Cultures [PDF]
, 2009 This paper investigates the reproduction of the imagined geography of the ‘West’ in contemporary Japan by employing a relational, intersectional and positional approach in order to examine Occidentalism and its hegemonic identification and othering ...
Barzan, L +14 more
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Materialising Design Fictions: Exploring Music Memorabilia in a Metaverse Environment
Information Systems Journal, Volume 35, Issue 6, Page 1662-1678, November 2025.ABSTRACT This paper addresses the challenge posed by the high cost and extensive time commitment required for Metaverse platform development by proposing an innovative, process‐centric methodology. Traditional approaches to creating such platforms are hindered by both limited expertise and significant resource investments, exposing substantial ...
M. Lycett +4 more
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From the 'cinematic' to the 'anime-ic': Issues of movement in anime [PDF]
, 2008 This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below.This article explores the way that movement is formally depicted in anime.
Bordwell, D. +10 more
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Rethinking 3.11's Mediascape through Japan Sinks 2020
Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, 2021 This paper examines Science SARU's Netflix show, Japan Sinks 2020, notably its departure from the general apocalyptic ideology of previous primary Japan Sinks texts.
Yaochong Yang
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From Pronoun to Identity: Tracing the History of the Word Otaku [PDF]
, 2019 Words are vessels of power; the power to convey meaning. Words can give shape to the identity of a group, and the same word can stereotype one for generations. This research paper is about one such word – ‘Otaku’.
Garg, Siddharth
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