Moe and the Potential of Fantasy in Post-Millenial Japan - 0 views
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If kawaii, or the aesthetic of cute, is the longing for the freedom and innocence of youth, manifesting in the junior and high school girl in uniform (Kinsella 1995), then moe is the longing for the purity of characters pre-person, manifesting in androgynous semi and demi human forms. This is called 'jingai,' or outside human, and examples include robots, aliens, dolls and anthropomorphized animals, all stock characters in the moe pantheon. A specific example would be nekomimi, or cat-eared characters. More generally, in order to achieve the desired affect, moe characters are reduced to tiny deformed 'little girl' images with emotive, pupil-less animal eyes
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I argue fantasy characters offer virtual possibilities and affect
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Moe is also used by fujoshi, zealous female fans of yaoi, a genre of manga featuring male homosexual romance. However, the word moe indicates a response to fantasy characters, not a specific style, character type or relational pattern. While some things are more likely than others to inspire moe, this paper will focus mainly on the response itself rather than the forms that inspire it.
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Otaku Public Library: MANGA REVIEW - How Not to Draw Manga, by Christ Reid and John Katz - 0 views
Full-frontal nudity: Taboo for men - 0 views
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Elayne Rapping, a professor of women’s studies and media studies at the State University of New York, Buffalo, said it’s such as it ever was: You can look back to classic paintings of the 17th and 18th centuries and see fully clothed men with nude women.“That’s been a constant of Western culture for centuries in representational art — that women have been presented as objects for what in film theory is called ‘the male gaze.’ The assumed viewer is male, and the woman is to be looked at for male pleasure,” she said.
Sometimes a Gaze is just an Eyeball! - 0 views
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The male gaze is social power, which it both draws from and reinforces. You therefore cannot have a female gaze. You can have individual objectification and desire, but there is no gaze.
Editor of Syzygy - The Female Gaze - 0 views
The Visual Linguist: Indexing Events with Panels - 0 views
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More interestingly, she claims that the "still-images of actions" are also indexical, because they only show a part of a broader temporal whole action.
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First of all, in the semiotics of C.S. Peirce, indexicality is a means through which reference is garnered via causation or indication. For example, an index finger that points to something doesn't mean that thing, it indicates the thing has meaning. The finger is just saying "for the real meaning look over there." Also, if I saw a footprint in the sand, it indexes the person who once walked there, because of the causation stepping there created.
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in How to Draw..., Lee and Buscema's advice is to use the maximally intense points of that sequence — the ends and beginnings of the action marked "best" or "not bad." These sections of the action seem more representative of the action than the medial parts. In semiotic terms, they would index the overall action better than the parts in the middle, which are less representative of the overall action. Research seems to have borne out their intuition.
Super deformed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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chibi by some anime fans, though chibi is a different concept that refers more to a person's stature rather than the art style. It is part of the Japanese culture, and is seen everywhere in Japan, from subway signs and advertising to anime and manga.
Cartoony vs. Realistic Images in the Brain - 0 views
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In McCloud's Understanding Comics he proposed his theory of "cartoon identification" that cartoony* images are "identified" with better than realistic images. This study (pdf) tested McCloud's theory by using behavioral measures of a 7-point rating and EEG measures of the brain's electrical activity.
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They take these results to be support for McCloud's theory of identification that indeed, cartoony images do invoke greater empathy from a reader than realistic images.
Cat Smile - Television Tropes & Idioms - 0 views
Hidden Eyes - Television Tropes & Idioms - 0 views
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