Anime Creativity: Characters and Premises in the Quest for Cool Japan

This article examines ethnographically the production of anime (Japanese animated films and TV shows) by focusing on how professional animators use characters and dramatic premises to organize their collaborative creativity. In contrast to much of the analysis of anime that focuses on the stories...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Condry, Ian
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Foreign Languages and Literatures
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Sage Publications 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/54243
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5858-4526