2024 Fall
JAPAN 188 101 - DIS 101
Japanese Visual Culture: Introduction to Anime
Daniel Cuong O'Neill
Class #:32440
Units: 4
Instruction Mode:
In-Person Instruction
Offered through
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Current Enrollment
Total Open Seats:
5
Enrolled: 30
Waitlisted: 0
Capacity: 35
Waitlist Max: 5
No Reserved Seats
Hours & Workload
2 hours of the exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week, 3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, and 7 hours of outside work hours per week.
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Course Catalog Description
This course is an introduction to Japanese animation, or anime, from its earliest forms (in relationship to manga) to recent digital culture, art, and games. We will analyze and study mainly animated feature films and read the critical work they inspired. We will address such issues as cultural memory and apocalyptic imagination, robots and the post-human, cities, nature, and the transnational; gender, shojo, and the aesthetics of "cute," as well as consider specific issues in the theoretical understanding of anime within technology and media theory.
Class Description
Japanese Visual Culture: Becoming Cyborgs: Cinema, Anime, and the Practices of Sociality
Rules & Requirements
Repeat Rules
Course is not repeatable for credit.
Requirements class fulfills
Meets Arts & Literature, L&S Breadth
Reserved Seats
Current Enrollment
No Reserved Seats
Textbooks & Materials
See class syllabus or https://calstudentstore.berkeley.edu/textbooks for the most current information.
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