Anime and genre

[tetsuwan at comcast.net]

The "anime" tag only does a disservice to the directors you mention if the word is interpreted in its Western common parlance. "Anime" really value neutral, however, it has come to mean a variety of things to a variety of people. A feature length film is a feature length film, animated or not. Gatekeepers (critics, web masters ;)) are able, or should be, to make distinctions between sen to chihiro and Pokemon as well as they are able to make distinctions between Trois Coleurs and Commando.

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Mark 
http://dorknation.wordpress.com

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From: "Todd Brown" <todd at twitchfilm.com> 

> I think there are certainly distinctions within anime and a lot that 
> certainly doesn't stand up to cinema standards - though you could say the 
> exact same thing about a huge number of films - but there are also a growing 
> number of animation directors in Japan who are increasingly ill-served by 
> having the anime tag applied. Mamoru Oshii, Satoshi Kon, Hayao Miyazaki, 
> Masaaki Yuasa among others are all legitimate auteurs in their own right who 
> are not accorded the respect they deserve because they are forced into the 
> otaku ghetto. 
> 
> Todd. 
> 
> > -----Original Message----- 
> > From: Brian Ruh [mailto:brianruh at yahoo.com] 
> > Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 9:28 AM 
> > To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu 
> > Subject: Anime and genre 
> > 
> > --- Lewis Cook wrote: 
> > > 
> > > 1. No idea how others on the list think about this - I don't have an 
> > > interest in theoretical debates about genre per se - but I don't 
> > > consider anime to be of the same basic genre as 'movies.' 
> > 
> > I know that you say above that you're not interested in genre debates, 
> > but I just have to ask -- why is "anime" separated from "movies" in 
> > your estimation? (Of course, not all anime is experienced in a cinema 
> > setting, so that might be one good reason.) And do you consider anime 
> > to be a genre? 
> > 
> > I'm curious about such perceptions of anime and how it's thought about 
> > and categorized. I'm interested to hear what others might think about 
> > this as well. 
> > 
> > == Brian 
> > 
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> > Research: http://www.animeresearch.com 
> > 
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