Globalization and Japan is usually connected with the oft researched policy of “Cool Japan.” Impressions on the policy is that it emphasizes popular culture, particularly anime and manga, as the media that promotes this movement. Courses on anime and manga tend to focus on an analysis of the object, whether it is a particular anime or manga title. This course aims to fill the gap, by shifting the focus to the industries as popular culture cannot exist without the complex structures of business, form and application of anime and manga. The course will feature anime and manga and will ask the students to understand them not only as texts. Rather that just being "passive" consumers of such cultural media, the course will engage students to (re-)examine them through similar/different media created from a different country.
- 教師: CARDINAL M. G.
- 教師: Cheng Chua Karl Ian
- 教師: 平川 春美