Posted by: Ariane Beldi on: April 21, 2009
Otaku2 – Doujinshi and Law
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This is something I have been thinking about recently. The manga industry has everything to gain from the dojinshi circles, for two reasons.
First, dojinshi has been fostered by the practice of the manga editors as far back as the 1930’s, when the first prepublication magazines encouraged readers to send [...]
Posted by: Ariane Beldi on: April 6, 2009
Danjuro Ichikawa II, in a mie pose in Shibaraku. Woodblock print by Torii Kiyomasu. Wikipedia English
Recently, I went to an amazing Surimono exhibit, at the Museum Rietberg, in Zürich. One of them represented the famous Kabuki actor Ishikawa Danjuro in a “mie” pose. Our guide, Mrs. Helen Loveday, an expert in the field of Chinese/Japanese [...]
Posted by: Ariane Beldi on: January 13, 2009
The Japanification of Children’s Popular Culture: From Godzilla to Miyazaki
by Mark I. West
I haven’t read it yet, but I just happened to stumble on it when I read the digest mail sent by “Let’s Manga” group on diigo. The link posted leads directly to the Amazon.com page, where you can buy it. I don’t know [...]
Posted by: Ariane Beldi on: January 8, 2009
Je ne l’avais pas encore fait jusque-là, mais j’ai décidé de me lancer dans des commentaires sur certaines séries d’animes ou de mangas qui m’ont inspirés des réflexions allant au-delà des considérations habituelles de goûts et de qualité de l’œuvre. Je dirais que la plupart de celles que j’ai achetées me titillent les neurones [...]
Posted by: Ariane Beldi on: July 4, 2008
And one more! Yes, one more book on animation and comics, including animes and mangas to add to your piling up reading list. These last two or three years, we have witnessed a flurry of works from a variety of disciplines on visual popular culture, especially on mangas and animes. This was somewhat long overdue [...]
Posted by: Ariane Beldi on: June 9, 2008
The general fun of fieldwork:
Alright, here is the first part of the account from my week-end at JapAniManga Night. I’m sorry, I can’t put it all in one post, so I hope you’ll be able to keep up with me as I organize my thoughts and notes. The first part is more a general assessment [...]
Posted by: Ariane Beldi on: May 2, 2008
Internet piracy certainly is the 21st century plague, at least for the media Industry. Despites the Music majors’ victories over such peers-to-peers systems as Napster, they aren’t yet out of the wood. Indeed, such community-based free platforms as YouTube have now taken the relay and offer a new haven for the zillions adepts of [...]
Posted by: Ariane Beldi on: April 24, 2008
The trumpets can start ringing, a new born has joined the increasingly fast-growing body of scholarly works focusing on the spread of Japanese entertainment and its success around the world!
In the wake of the many Manga Network projects, several publications are on the line and Marco Pellitteri’s book entitled “Il drago e la Saetta. Modelli, [...]
Posted by: Ariane Beldi on: April 4, 2008
L’association Yume a le plaisir d’organiser la première suisse de:
Brave Story
Dimanche 6 avril 2008 à midi
Cinéma Bio
47 Rue Saint-Joseph
1227 Carouge
Tram 12, 13 : March
Entrée 16.- CHF
13.- AVS-Etudiants-Chômeurs-AI- Membres ATE
10.- Ciné Pass
5.- Membres Yume
Site officiel: http://www.bravestory-lefilm.com/
Titre original : Brave Story
Pays : Japon
Durée : 112 minutes
Langues : Version originales sous-titrée en français
Format image : 1,85
Format [...]