I'm entirely sure what I'm doing for my reading, but there's a good chance it will be a section of the Island of Eight Million Smiles: Idol Preformance and Symbolic Production in Contemporary Japan, because the gendering of females in the Akihabara subculture is clearly mirroring the gendering of idols in 'mainstream' culture.
Also, Quinn, you might want to borrow this book from me as well, as it relates the gendering of female leads in Japanese dramas. Yayface.
Also, Lindsey, This Jstor article is relevant to my interests :3 I want to read this and you want to read this and so it should be your reading for your presentation:
Monday, November 10, 2008
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Doirific
So, for those of you who are completely unfamiliar with Lucky Star (though I take it you're all familiar with the Akiba sub culture :P) I'm posting a link to the opening from YouTube, which gives a good feel for the show.
The cast is almost entirely female, much like Azu Manga Dao, focusing on high school students but clearly caters more directly to an Akiba otaku-specific audience (with references to 'normal' people), and one of the main female characters is quite obviously meant to identify with male otaku- later in the series they introduce a character who clearly represents a female one to show the contrast. It's hugely successful, and although it backs away from it, even has breif implications of thoughts of incest and pedophilia. Krazy.
I realized the other day in class, however unfortunatly, how perfectly Doi fits in with the gendering of this particular male-gendered character and had a very long 'saaa' moment as I realized I'm going to talk about him/use him in my paper. For the record, I am still frumpy-face about him. But he does give so very much to work with.
Also, to spite myself further, when Judith Butler talks about Lacan, there's a portion that reminded me of my best buddy there... lessee... here it is (discussing, to put it breifly, women identifying men as masculine through playing their gender roles of being feminine, so that the masculine can exist):
"The task is confounded, to say the least, when the demand that women reflect the autonomous power of masculine subject/signifier becomes essential to the construction of that autonomy and, thus, becomes the basis for the radical dependancy that effectively undercuts the function it serves. But further, this dependancy, although denied, is also pursued by the masculine subject, for the woman as reassuring sign is the displaced maternal body, the vain but persistant promise of the recovery of pre-individuated jouissance. The conflict of masculinity appears, then to be precisely the demand for a full recognition of autonomy that will also and nevertheless promise a return to those full pleasures prior to repression and individuation." (p.45, Gender Trouble)
Ha cha cha. Doirific. (doesn't that word sound like something out of a bugs bunny cartoon? better shoo it on over to Lindsey's blog)
I'm going to put up a few links to some things I've been reading online shortly. Also, if you don't know what moe is, the wikipedia article might be useful for you before reading anythign else for a fairly brief explanation so you know which way your head turns.
The cast is almost entirely female, much like Azu Manga Dao, focusing on high school students but clearly caters more directly to an Akiba otaku-specific audience (with references to 'normal' people), and one of the main female characters is quite obviously meant to identify with male otaku- later in the series they introduce a character who clearly represents a female one to show the contrast. It's hugely successful, and although it backs away from it, even has breif implications of thoughts of incest and pedophilia. Krazy.
I realized the other day in class, however unfortunatly, how perfectly Doi fits in with the gendering of this particular male-gendered character and had a very long 'saaa' moment as I realized I'm going to talk about him/use him in my paper. For the record, I am still frumpy-face about him. But he does give so very much to work with.
Also, to spite myself further, when Judith Butler talks about Lacan, there's a portion that reminded me of my best buddy there... lessee... here it is (discussing, to put it breifly, women identifying men as masculine through playing their gender roles of being feminine, so that the masculine can exist):
"The task is confounded, to say the least, when the demand that women reflect the autonomous power of masculine subject/signifier becomes essential to the construction of that autonomy and, thus, becomes the basis for the radical dependancy that effectively undercuts the function it serves. But further, this dependancy, although denied, is also pursued by the masculine subject, for the woman as reassuring sign is the displaced maternal body, the vain but persistant promise of the recovery of pre-individuated jouissance. The conflict of masculinity appears, then to be precisely the demand for a full recognition of autonomy that will also and nevertheless promise a return to those full pleasures prior to repression and individuation." (p.45, Gender Trouble)
Ha cha cha. Doirific. (doesn't that word sound like something out of a bugs bunny cartoon? better shoo it on over to Lindsey's blog)
I'm going to put up a few links to some things I've been reading online shortly. Also, if you don't know what moe is, the wikipedia article might be useful for you before reading anythign else for a fairly brief explanation so you know which way your head turns.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Tyska'a Blog
This is my Blog, about my Capstone. Yaaaaay.
Also, I may occasional put up stuff related to my Honors Thesis that might also beinteresting.
Yaaaaay.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
