Topic 5 - Manga, Anime and Globalisation by https://padlet.com/s_lim/jc0x7zpgzwn6 Focus Questions for discussion and thoughts en-us 2018-05-07 04:29:19 UTC 2026-02-20 10:22:18 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Planets.png Posted by Jane s_lim https://padlet.com/s_lim/jc0x7zpgzwn6/wish/258397269 Manga is providing a challenge to “America’s stranglehold on entertainment” (Goodale cited in Cooper‐Chen, p. 44) because it is more popular/widespread in Asia.  In 2005, Asia (not including Japan) accounted for 42% of the market.  (Cooper‐Chen, p. 47) ]]> 2018-05-07 04:35:48 UTC https://padlet.com/s_lim/jc0x7zpgzwn6/wish/258397269 Posted by SL s_lim https://padlet.com/s_lim/jc0x7zpgzwn6/wish/262948292 “Osamu Tezuka, who started the style, took his inspiration from 1950s cartoon characters Betty Boop, Felix the Cat and Disney creations. The big‐eye style ‘has become a convention and is typically used to give a character a cute, appealing quality. Characters with small or oriental‐looking eyes tend to be less sympathetic’” (Richmond cited in Cooper‐Chen, p. 45‐46).]]> 2018-05-23 08:31:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s_lim/jc0x7zpgzwn6/wish/262948292 Posted by ABC s_lim https://padlet.com/s_lim/jc0x7zpgzwn6/wish/262949369  Imperial internationalism globalism: 

                 Betty Boop’s 1935 ‘A Language All My Own’  (compare with Katy Perry’s performance) 

              Animation a result of desire to appeal to an international market and economic necessity. 

However, was not “a mutual transcultural exchange” (Annett, p. 176), this form of transcultural engagement was very orientalist, “embedded in imperial internationalism” (Annett, p. 176)
]]> 2018-05-23 08:35:58 UTC https://padlet.com/s_lim/jc0x7zpgzwn6/wish/262949369 Thoughts from GG s_lim https://padlet.com/s_lim/jc0x7zpgzwn6/wish/262949723 Brienza argues that manga had not conquered America but rather economic pressures have made manga more American. (Brienza, p. 396)]]> 2018-05-23 08:37:16 UTC https://padlet.com/s_lim/jc0x7zpgzwn6/wish/262949723 What about ... JJ s_lim https://padlet.com/s_lim/jc0x7zpgzwn6/wish/262950040 “transnationalism takes into account the friction that Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing describes as a key feature of globalisation. Looking at Japan’s economic influence in Southeast Asia, Tsing describes friction as “the awkward, unequal, unstable and creative qualities of interconnection across difference.” In her view, globalisation is often economically and socially oppressive, but there is still hope for contestation in and through the very sites of inequality.” (Annett, p. 173)]]> 2018-05-23 08:38:22 UTC https://padlet.com/s_lim/jc0x7zpgzwn6/wish/262950040