Sandra Annett | |
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Occupation | Film scholar |
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Thesis | Animating Transcultural Communities: Animation Fandom in North America and East Asia from 1906–2010 (2011) |
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Discipline | Film studies |
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Institutions | Wilfrid Laurier University |
Sandra Annett is a Canadian film academic. She is author of Anime Fan Communities:Transcultural Flows and Frictions (2014) and The Flesh of Animation:Bodily Sensations in Film and Digital Media (2024),as well as co-editor of the academic journal Mechademia . She is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University.
Sandra Annett was educated at Dalhousie University,where she got her BA in Honours English in 2004,and at Queen's University at Kingston,where she got her MA in English in 2006. [1] In 2011,she received her PhD in English and Film Studies from the University of Manitoba; [1] her thesis,titled Animating Transcultural Communities:Animation Fandom in North America and East Asia from 1906–2010,was supervised by Diana Brydon,William Lee,and Eugene P. Walz. [2] In 2011,she became part of the Wilfrid Laurier University staff,where she became an Associate Professor of Film Studies. [1] She also became their film studies program's resident specialist in digital and new media studies. [3]
As an academic,Annett specializes in both the relationship between media technology and visual audience perception and in film studies,especially in animated film and the cinema of Japan. [1] In 2014,she published the book Anime Fan Communities:Transcultural Flows and Frictions . [4] Her next book, The Flesh of Animation:Bodily Sensations in Film and Digital Media ,which discusses the relationship between animation and interoception,was published in April 2024. [5] She and Frenchy Lunning are the co-editors of Mechademia ,an academic journal on Japanese popular culture. [6]
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Neon Genesis Evangelion,also known as Evangelion or Eva,is a Japanese mecha anime television series produced by Gainax,animated by Tatsunoko,and directed by Hideaki Anno. It was broadcast on TV Tokyo from October 1995 to March 1996. The story is set fifteen years after a worldwide cataclysm in the futuristic fortified city of Tokyo-3. The protagonist is Shinji Ikari,a teenage boy recruited by his father Gendo to the mysterious organization Nerv. Shinji must pilot an Evangelion,a giant biomechanical mecha,to fight beings known as Angels.
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Ghost in the Shell 2:Innocence,known in Japan as just Innocence,is a 2004 Japanese animated cyberpunk film written and directed by Mamoru Oshii. The film serves as a standalone sequel to Ghost in the Shell (1995) and is loosely based on the 1989–91 manga The Ghost in the Shell by Masamune Shirow.
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In anime and manga,the term "LGBTQ themes" includes lesbian,gay,bisexual and transgender material. Outside Japan,anime generally refers to a specific Japanese-style of animation,but the word anime is used by the Japanese themselves to broadly describe all forms of animated media there. According to Harry Benshoff and Sean Griffin,the fluid state of animation allows the flexibility of animated characters to perform multiple roles at once. Manga genres that focus on same-sex intimacy and relationships resulted from fan work that depicted relationships between two same-sex characters. This includes characters who express their gender and sexuality outside of hetero-normative boundaries. There are also multiple sub genres that target specific consumers and themes:yaoi,yuri,shoujo-ai,shonen-ai,bara,etc. LGBT-related manga found its origins from fans who created an "alternative universe" in which they paired their favorite characters together. Many of the earliest works that contained LGBT themes were found in works by dōjinshi,specifically written content outside the regular industry. The rise of yaoi and yuri was also slowed due to censorship laws in Japan that make it extremely hard for Japanese manga artists ("mangakas") and others to create work that is LGBT themed. Anime that contained LGBTQ content was changed to meet international standards. However,publishing companies continued to expand their repertoire to include yuri and yaoi,and conventions were created to form a community and culture for fans of this work.
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