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I think I'm on a roll!
"Indeed, what appears to be the single most -asked question about anime in America, "why is anime so full of sex and violence?," is an inquiry that, while betraying an ignorance of the complexity and variety of the art form, is still significant in that it reveals the bewilderment of Western audiences in confronting so-called adult themes within the animated medium."
- from (my signed copy of ^_^) Susan J. Napier's Anime: from Akira to Princess Mononoke
Anyways, I've basically decided to write about anime for the audience of the Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature Film Society, which is "interested in films that address both the political and cultural impact of contemporary society". Especially after getting some help from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
yumenohoshi and reviewing the first two chapters of Anime, I'm feeling good about this. :)
[EDIT: *jumps up and down excitedly* I have to do some more research, but this is gonna be the first time in a while where i'll have more to say than i can in the space i have. ^_^ ^_^ ^_^
Although... I just realized that I'm gonna have to tie myself down a bit with the requirement of focusing on multi-culturalism...
Based on what you know about the term and what your audience knows and wants, decide what the paper will be about.
For example, you could track:
* how use of the term has changed over time
* OR how different micro-cultures' use of the term varies
* OR how the term gets used in political rhetoric
* OR what elisions the term creates
* OR the legal uses of the term
* OR how the term is defined differently by insiders vs. outsiders
* OR your experience with the term (placed in a larger context of term usage)
* OR some other uses or abuses of the term (you must get my okay for this option)]
- from (my signed copy of ^_^) Susan J. Napier's Anime: from Akira to Princess Mononoke
Anyways, I've basically decided to write about anime for the audience of the Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature Film Society, which is "interested in films that address both the political and cultural impact of contemporary society". Especially after getting some help from
yumenohoshi and reviewing the first two chapters of Anime, I'm feeling good about this. :)[EDIT: *jumps up and down excitedly* I have to do some more research, but this is gonna be the first time in a while where i'll have more to say than i can in the space i have. ^_^ ^_^ ^_^
Although... I just realized that I'm gonna have to tie myself down a bit with the requirement of focusing on multi-culturalism...
Based on what you know about the term and what your audience knows and wants, decide what the paper will be about.
For example, you could track:
* how use of the term has changed over time
* OR how different micro-cultures' use of the term varies
* OR how the term gets used in political rhetoric
* OR what elisions the term creates
* OR the legal uses of the term
* OR how the term is defined differently by insiders vs. outsiders
* OR your experience with the term (placed in a larger context of term usage)
* OR some other uses or abuses of the term (you must get my okay for this option)]