According
to Napier (2005), Anime is a high cultural genre and increasingly popular in
Japan although it remains as a sub culture in America. Napier praises the genre
as it reflects and furthers many Japanese traditional arts but also “…makes use
of worldwide artistic traditions of twentieth century cinema and photography”.
He also commends the issues addressed in the genre as they are recognizable to
many readers of “high culture literature” and viewers of “contemporary art
cinema”, yet, they are able to capture the attention of audiences worldwide.
The world’s technology is ever evolving and developing, so in comparison to
older art forms, Anime is a lot easier accessed by their approach to cinema and
photography – thus their popularity grows and begins to larger the genre and
bring with it some sub-genres too.
Nice opening comment Jazz. A question: what are these 'issues addressed in the genre' from high culture?
ReplyDeleteNapier reveals how Anime was able to spread rapidly over many different audiences because of its popularity. A surprising situation happened with the art work as protest in Sarajevo, extremely unexpected to have even crossed into those parts of the world and into such a war struck and suffering city it was a realization of its remarkable reach.
DeleteI think it would be interesting to see how far anime has come in western cultures since 2005. I think 2005 is about when I first started watching it, and since then I've brought it to friends, and them to their friends etc, and it's spread.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if it's the same everywhere.
I think the western world will cling onto something as soon as they find it or as soon as it finds them, we just have to be shown it. So I agree that it would be interesting to see how far it has come and how much of the world not only the western has embraced it.
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