Japanese Aesthetics and Anime

Japanese Aesthetics and Anime
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Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9780786471515
ISBN-13 : 0786471514
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Book Synopsis Japanese Aesthetics and Anime by : Dani Cavallaro

Download or read book Japanese Aesthetics and Anime written by Dani Cavallaro and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study addresses the relationship between Japanese aesthetics, a field steeped in philosophy and traditional knowledge, and anime, a prominent part of contemporary popular culture. There are three premises: (1) the abstract concepts promoted by Japanese aesthetics find concrete expression at the most disparate levels of everyday life; (2) the abstract and the concrete coalesce in the visual domain, attesting to the visual nature of Japanese culture at large; and (3) anime can help us appreciate many aspects of Japan's aesthetic legacy, in terms of both its theoretical propositions and its visual, even tangible, aspects.


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