Painting legends: Reading About Images in the Contemporary Japanese Anime Films
Abstract
The cinematographic genre of anime has quite definite formal characteristics in the treatment of line and colour; hence the variations on the aesthetic model that inspires it are highly significant. There are two consequences in this respect: on the one hand, the evocation of concrete paintings and artists (Japanese and Westerners) and, on the other hand, the relationship of the narratives with traditional legends, especially Buddhist legends, which are recreated as images within the image. So, the comprehension of the contents implies the need for a global reading from which one can extract didactic keys and cultural reading for the western spectator, according to recent films such as, for example, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya.
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