Des images qui bougent – un blog de cours sur l’animation japonaise à la Sorbonne
Voici un blog que je recommande à tous ceux qui désirent comprendre le monde de l’animation japonaise d’un point de vue plus approfondi. Son auteur, Marie Pruvost-Despre est professeur à l’Université de Paris 3 et ce blog lui permet de proposer des prolongements à son cours à la Sorbonne Nouvelle intitulé “Le cinéma d’animation japonaise … Read more
Terrain #1 – Japan Impact 2010
Et voilà arrivé le moment tant attendu…mais aussi craint: celui de la sortie sur le terrain! En effet, jusqu’à maintenant, ma recherche a essentiellement consisté en lectures de dizaines d’ouvrages et articles, ainsi qu’en une réflexion théorique, synthétisée sur ce blog. On peut dire donc que c’était une situation relativement confortable, même si je dois … Read more
Reading report #3: Anime DVD and placelessness
I’m now reading the textbook entitled Doing Cultural Studies, The Story of the Sony Walkman, edited by Paul du Gay et al. One key aspect of the Cultural Studies approach they highlight in the second section of the book, is the importance of describing the economic and technical circumstances out of which is born a … Read more
Otaku2 – Doujinshi and Law
Otaku2 – Doujinshi and Law Posted using ShareThis This is something I have been thinking about recently. The manga industry has everything to gain from the dojinshi circles, for two reasons. First, dojinshi has been fostered by the practice of the manga editors as far back as the 1930′s, when the first prepublication magazines encouraged … Read more
The paradoxe of Web 2.0
One of the great promises of the Internet and mobile technologie in the 1990′s was that it would bring about the ideal of the “global village” by leveling down all the physical, geopolitical and cultural bariers, so that all human beings would finally be able to share a common space of expression and exchange. Such … Read more
