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[adiva_calandia]

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\o/ HELL YEAH.

So I think I'm gonna write one of my final papers on kabuki and noh influences in anime, specifically using either Princess Mononoke or Spirited Away as a case study. I'm sure I'm not the first person to think of this, of course, and I'll be going looking for other analyses along those lines -- but in the meantime, while I binge on anime on a gorgeous summer day research, anyone of the scholarly anime fans on my f-list have any resources I should look at?

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[gramarye1971]

I'm very hard pressed to think of any good scholarly books on anime, unfortunately. Certainly nothing that I'd recommend. Most of the books fall into the two old traps: (1) they're written by academics who aren't anime fans, or (2) they're written by anime fans who aren't academics. Susan Napier, for instance, tried her best, but I've read better and more insightful LJ posts that analyse anime series. You're better off looking at scholarly analyses of kabuki and noh, and then using those analyses to look at the films. I'm not up to date on the latest articles, but I'm willing to bet that the same holds true there.

[adiva_calandia]

Really! I would've expected more over the last few years -- especially now that America's jumping on the bandwagon with stuff like Avatar.

Anyhoo -- you're probably right about looking at the historical scholarship first and then applying it. Maybe I can break new ground. *grin*

[gramarye1971]

My roommate and I talk about this a lot, seeing as how we're both academic-types who've been into anime for quite a while now. Mechademia and its related links are about as good as you're likely to find, and even then you have to do a lot of sifting to get through the drek and locate the insightful stuff. One of the big nonscholarly English-language anime magazines, Newtype USA, just folded a few months ago after a five-year run.

I'm sure there's good writing out there, but you're probably not going to find it in the usual sources. ^^;;