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Nele Noppe

How doujinshi will take over the world (or not) - 0 views

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shared by Nele Noppe on 02 Nov 08 - Cached
  • First, doujinshi are not commercial products, and this is one of the most important distinctions that allows its very existence. 
  • Many doujinshi conventions (Comiket included) require doujin circles to provide print run information, and enforces a cap.  Quite simply, there aren’t enough books to export en mass. 
  • This is also why doujinshi has continued to grow while other media like manga, anime, and music have suffered with the advent of peer to peer trading on the internet…the doujinshi market is a collector’s market, where the physical book itself is highly valued
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  • that’s not to say that doujinshi isn’t profitable…a few artists never “go pro” because they make quite a healthy living on their doujinshi,
  • The much better road for the American manga industry and fans to take is not to import doujinshi, but to import the doujinshi ideal and ethics, and foster a domestic doujinshi community of our own.  This road is beset by its own share of hurdles, though, and they have very deep roots.
  • While fanzines and fanfiction have been around in the U.S., we have nothing even close to the doujinshi scene in Japan, because of American corporate mentality which values “perpetual properties” instead of new creations, and these properties are guarded visciously.
  • in America properties are created and owned by the corporation.
  • They simply have no reason to support budding artists in such a way, when their raison detre are still characters created decades ago.  Fan comics are not seen as extending the life of a property, but as competition. 
  • The truth is a significant portion of Japanese doujinshi are erotic works, many based on children’s shows.  It isn’t hard to imagine the kind of moral outrage most doujinshi would illicit. 
  • American manga companies need to take a hard look at doujinshi in Japan and understand its benefits, and readers and artists should take a stand because this is an opportunity for the status of the creator to take precedence over the corporation.
Nele Noppe

Aestheticism Articles: HP doujinshi - 0 views

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shared by Nele Noppe on 02 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Japanese doujinshika---at least at this sort of amateur level---are often very leery of publicity. This might be a reaction to the arrests of several doujinshika in apparently random, token copyright enforcement cases in recent years (such as the infamous Pokemon doujinshika incident), or it might simply be a sign of how negatively "fringe" behavior is viewed in Japanese society
  • Snape is gorgeous---or at least that's what the djka at this show seemed to believe.
  • Doujinshika are infamous for "prettifying" real-life (or real-text) actors/characters, and who can blame them?
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  • it's how Snape is depicted emotionally that's most telling on a cross-cultural level.
  • None of the doujinshi that I saw on the Snape side of the event depicted Angsty!Snape. Or Traumatized!Snape, or for that matter Unhappy!Snape. Instead, almost all of the books showed variations on the same thing: Cranky!Snape.
  • I've been told repeatedly that Japan just doesn't do psychology---certainly not to the same dogged degree as the West.
  • Western Fanfic Snape is physically attractive but brooding, miserable, and emotionally damaged. Japanese Doujinshi Snape is physically attractive and cranky because he's surrounded by horny goofballs.
  • Still, it was interesting to see so many similarities of concept and characterization between Japanese writers and Westerners Sirius/Remus 'shippers.
  • The only real difference I can see between the Japanese depictions and the Western is that sense of ominousness I mentioned. The majority of Western Sirius/Remus 'fics I've read have been hopeful/positive in tone.
Nele Noppe

Uses and gratifications - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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shared by Nele Noppe on 19 Aug 08 - Cached
  • Nele Noppe on 19 Aug 08
     
    # Diversion - a media text which provides an escape from reality. When a media text temporarily partially covers one's senses. For example playing a video game. # Personal relationships - People create personal relationships with the characters in a media text, they start to feel they know them. This can become dangerous if people start to trust them as well, for example if one trusted a news reporter too much they may take everything they say at face value and not question it, this trust could then be abused. # Personal identity - When a person creates part of their own identity from things they find attractive in people from media texts, for example someone may have a haircut because they liked the look of a similar one in a magazine. This can go a long way in shaping people and people's ideas of values, norms, ideologies and fashions. # Surveillance - the audience gain an understanding of the world around them by consuming a media text, for example print and broadcast news.
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Fanfic Symposium: On Swinging Both Ways, Fannish and Pro - 0 views

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shared by Nele Noppe on 19 Aug 08 - Cached
  • Fanfiction puts narrative back in the hands of the people! It's a folkloric art! It helps us go from being passive consumers of media to active participants in creating the archetypes of our culture!
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Fanfic Symposium: Cross Fertilization of Fan and Professional Writing - 0 views

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shared by Nele Noppe on 19 Aug 08 - Cached
  • The prevalence of such curious language use led me to think that fan-writers must have influenced one another’s diction because they read so much of one another’s writing, with the result that they incorporated the idiosyncratic as the norm.
  • These are only surface manifestations.  There are deeper phenomena.  The foremost is that the world inhabited by the characters in some fan fiction reflects the limited experiences of the writers. 
  • There is nothing wrong with this if the characters are from the American middle class.  Unfortunately, many popular shows feature people not acculturated in such a milieu—Methos, Duncan MacCleod of the Clan MacCleod, Benton Fraser, Harry Potter, Snape, Tom Paris, Chakotay, Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon. . . .  Consequently, the specter of these characters spouting psychobabble is disconcerting, to say the very least.
Nele Noppe

The Democratic Genre: Fan Fiction in a Literary Context - 0 views

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shared by Nele Noppe on 30 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Nele Noppe on 30 Jan 09
     
    If the negative review is correct, this would seem to confirm the idea that literary criticism is not the way to go with fanwork analysis unless you really, really know what you're talking about when choosing a piece of fanfic for analysis and making statements about fic/fandom based on that.
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xparrot: shipping kills puppies! - 0 views

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shared by Nele Noppe on 02 Mar 09 - Cached
  • (I think there's a reason that a lot of the old fan shows, the big ones, were series that never had canon ships, never had any romances that lasted more than a single episode.
  • Nele Noppe on 02 Mar 09
     
    I think there's a reason that a lot of the old fan shows, the big ones, were series that never had canon ships, never had any romances that lasted more than a single episode.
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