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Animating the spirited : journeys and transformations /

"Getting in touch with a spiritual side is a craving many are unable to express or voice, but readers and viewers seek out this desired connection to something greater through animation, cinema, anime, and art. Animating the Spirited: Journeys and Transformations includes a range of exploration...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hu, Tze-yue G. (Editor ), Yokota, Masao, 1954- (Editor ), Horvath, Gyongyi, 1987- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Section 1: Mindful practices, creation, and the spirited process. Mindful animation for learning awareness / Graham Barton and Birgitta Hosea ; Transforming the intangible into the real: reflections on my selected animation works / Koji Yamamura ; Transforming the schizophrenic through cinematic therapy / Eileen Anastasia Reynolds
  • Section 2: Objects, spirits, and characters. Animating artifact spirits in the 2.5-dimensional world: personification and performing characters in Token Ranbu / Akiko Sugawa-Shimada ; Heaven and earth: traditional sources of the dual identities of anime heroines / Raz Greenberg ; Metanoia in anime: rehabilitating demons, turning foes into allies / Richard J. Leskosky
  • Section 3: Inspirations from the spiritual-cultural realm. Animating with the primordial pen: mystic and Sufi inspirations in calligraphic animation / M. Javad Khajavi ; Interpretations and thoughts of the animated self in Cowherd's Flute: highlighting the Daoist elements in Te Wei's watercolor-and-ink animation / Tze-yue G. Hu ; Interpreting Buddhist influences in Kawamoto's puppet animation: a psychologist's reflections and readings of his animation / Masao Yokota
  • Section 4: Comics and children's literature: their transformative roles. "We are all humans": children's transformative interpretation of a comic on the Rwandan genocide / Gyongyi Horvath ; The "spiritual" role of the media? Heidi, Girl of the Alps in Japan and Korea / Giryung Park
  • Section 5: Buddhist worldviews, interactions, and symbolism. Understanding Thai animation narratives: the presence of Buddhist philosophy and Thai cultural ideology / Millie Young ; Veiled Zen journeys through early Muromachi flower-and-bird paintings / Yuk Lan Ng ; Shadows of the Sun: animating Buddhist Dharma for art history / Yin Ker
  • Epilogue / Tze-yug G. Hu and Masao Yokota.