Asian Invasion
Ono Seiko and Aaron Gerow
onogerow at angel.ne.jp
Thu Jan 18 09:04:27 EST 2001
>More importantly, a close look at anime fandom in the US will reveal that
>there are diverse pleasures being had there---relationships to textuality,
>to narrative and to drawing, that make the Techno-Orientalism take feel
>mechanical itself. There you go, Aaron.
Actually, my original query was also asking if the Techno-Orientalism
argument was sufficient. Personally I don't think it is, because the
attractions of Japanese film are many times less technological than
subcultural--thus all the attention to pink films, horror flicks, Pulp
Japan, etc. Think about Weisser, the Viz Communications books, etc.
Most of what's being published on non-anime Japanese film is in this
realm. What's going on there? What are the attractions of this Asian
invasion?
Aaron
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