Violence and Desire in Japanese Popular Culture Anime Capitalism …

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Violence and Desire in Japanese Popular Culture: Anime Capitalism. 2-4pm. MIT. April 15, 2006. Professor Anne Allison (Duke University) on Pokemon …

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Violence and Desire in Japanese Popular Culture: Anime Capitalism
2-4pm
MIT
April 15, 2006
Professor Anne Allison (Duke University) on Pokemon Capitalism and Desire
John O’Donnell (founder, Central Park Media) on Otaku Entrepreneurs and Anime
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Professor Ian Condry (MIT) on Fansubs, Piracy and Global Media
Ian Condry - MIT
Violence and Desire in Japanese popular culture and let’s put it loosely organized around
that but also focusing on several different aspects of animation, anime from Japan.
Yesterday we had a panel with three speakers looking at religion, art history, and also
issues of nature, environmentalism in anime. Last night, we had an anime screening of a
contemporary TV show called Samurai Champloo which mixes hip hop and samurai
themes in an animated TV series. And, today, we have another panel, we’ll run today
from 2 to 4 o’clock and the panelists today I’ll just introduce them briefly and then also,
what I’ll do is ask each of the panelists to introduce themselves as well and talk about
their own interests and relationship with Japan Popular Culture. I should say I am Ian
Condry, I’m an assistant professor of Japan Cultural Studies here…