ANIME PLEASURES AS A PLAYGROUND OF SEXUALITY POWER AND RESISTANCE
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paper suggests that anime pleasures offer a chance to develop not an escape ….. Third, anime pleasures are often situated in the pleasure for resistance, …
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Lien Fan Shen
International Conference 2007
MiT5, Media in Transition: Creativity, Ownership, and Collaboration in the digital Age.
ANIME PLEASURES AS A PLAYGROUND OF SEXUALITY, POWER,
AND RESISTANCE
Abstract
This paper argues that the pleasure of viewing anime (Japanese animation) enables anime
otaku’s playful practices and engenders an imperceptible politics in viewers’ own favor.
First, by examining two anime works, Fooly Cooly (2003) and Revolutionary Girl Utena
(1999-2001), I argue that anime images embody the pleasure of evasion and the pleasure
of transgression as a form of resistance to the regulatory power and the normative
sexuality….
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