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The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan's Media Success Story

The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan's Media Success Story

Paperback

Series: Experimental Futures

AnthropologyGeneral SociologyJapanese History

Publisher Price: $26.95

ISBN10: 0822353946
ISBN13: 9780822353942
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Feb 11 2013
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
In The Soul of Anime, Ian Condry explores the emergence of anime, Japanese animated film and television, as a global cultural phenomenon. Drawing on ethnographic research, including interviews with artists at some of Tokyo's leading animation studios-such as Madhouse, Gonzo, Aniplex, and Studio Ghibli-Condry discusses how anime's fictional characters and worlds become platforms for collaborative creativity. He argues that the global success of Japanese animation has grown out of a collective social energy that operates across industries-including those that produce film, television, manga (comic books), and toys and other licensed merchandise-and connects fans to the creators of anime. For Condry, this collective social energy is the soul of anime.

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