Fwd: DIJ History&Humanities Study Group, August 25, 6:30 pm

[Aaron Gerow]

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> From: "Andrea Germer" <germer at dijtokyo.org>
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> DIJ History&Humanities Study Group
> (Organizers: Sven Saaler; Andrea Germer; Monika Schrimpf)
>
> We would like to invite you to the next meeting of the
> DIJ History&Humanities Study Group
>
> Wednesday, August 25, 6:30 pm
>
> at the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ), Tokyo
> (http://www.dijtokyo.org/?page=address.php&menu=1)
>
>
> This month's speaker will be
>
> Hu Tze Yue (Waseda University/ Nanyang Technological University,  
> College of
> Engineering)
>
> who will give a presentation on
>
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> Dream of dreams, becoming Disney of Asia
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>
> Everybody is welcome to attend, but registration at germer at dijtokyo.org
> would be helpful.
>
>
> Abstract:
> By the end of the 20th century, Japan has acquired a new corporate  
> name,
> Anime-nation (also called Japanimation). How did this process come  
> about and
> ?who? is responsible for the rise of this medium-genre called ?anime??
> My presentation will discuss the founding of Asia?s first Disney-like
> animation studio, Toei Doga and its subsequent ?dethronement? by the  
> late
> manga king, Tesuka Osama. Moreover, I will take up the contemporary
> acknowledgement of a previously trained Toei-animator, Miyazaki Hayao  
> and
> his animation studio, Studio Ghibli as Asia?s leading animation studio
> especially in terms of its artistic output and its continuous  
> box-office
> successes in commercial animation cinema.
>
> After the Asia-Pacific War, Japan was not the only Asian country that
> harbored this ?Disney?s dream?. For example, individuals in China and
> Taiwan, albeit unsuccessfully, attempted to build such projects, too.  
> We
> shall examine the drive behind the Japanese experience and review the
> medium-genre?s roles and intentions in post-war Japan and the mixture  
> of
> internal discourses that has risen in recognition of the country?s
> so-called supreme status in animation production and exhibition  
> worldwide.
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>
> Hu Tze Yue has a Ph.D in Comparative Literature, University of Hong  
> Kong.
> Currently, she is a Japan Foundation fellow based at Waseda University,
> Division of Cinema and Theatre Arts. She is also an adjunct lecturer of
> Asian Studies at Nanyang Technological University, College of  
> Engineering.
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> Dr. Andrea GERMER
> German Institute for Japanese Studies
> 3-3-6 Kudan-Minami, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0074
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> Phone: ++81- (0)3 - 3222 - 5077 (operator)
>             ++81- (0)3 - 3222 - 5943 (direct)
> Fax:     ++81- (0)3 - 3222 - 5420
> Email: germer at dijtokyo.org
> http://www.dijtokyo.org
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