Content tagged "Japan"
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Podcast: Mia Consalvo, “Western Otaku: Games Crossing Cultures”
Through in-depth interviews with such players, this study investigates how transnational fandom operates in the realm of videogame culture, and how a particular group of videogame players interprets their gameplay experience in terms of a global, if hybrid, industry.
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Japan’s Plans to Take Over the Gaming World: An Interview with Mia Consalvo
GAMBIT researcher and communications director Geoffrey Long sat down with Mia Consalvo to discover what she plans to accomplish during her stay at MIT.
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In Medias Res, Fall 2009
As CMS moves into its 10th year, dramatic change is certainly ongoing. But that change has logic…in new faculty, new research, and our alumni network.
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Podcast: Jennifer Robertson, “Gendering Robots: Posthuman Sexism in Japan”
University of Michigan professor of anthropology Jennifer Robertson explored and interrogated the gendering of humanoid robots manufactured today in Japan for use in the home and workplace.
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Podcast: Christina Klein, “The Case of Tekkon Kinkreet: Transnational, U.S.-Asian Cinema”
Anime, often considered a uniquely Japanese cinematic form, is no exception. This talk will explore one recent example of transnational anime: Tekkon Kinkreet, the first Japanese anime to be written and directed by Americans.
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Live Action Anime? Only at MIT!
The performance, Madness at Mokuba, opened with a spectacular battle between two giant robots staged against the backdrop of projected anime image.
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Girls-Games-Japan: Why it is different to be a female gamer in Japan and how we can make a change in the West.
Papermint’s success is based on its practical realisation of Barbara Lippe’s research on Japanese gaming and girl culture.
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Podcast: Sharon Kinsella, “Men Imagining a Girl Revolution”
Foreign Languages and Literatures visiting professor Sharon Kinsella examines the media constructions of a teenage female revolt in contemporary Japan drawing from her current book project Girls as Energy: Fantasies of Social Rejuvenation.
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Men Imagining a Girl Revolution
Sharon Kinsella examines the media constructions of a teenage female revolt in contemporary Japan drawing from her current book project Girls as Energy: Fantasies of Social Rejuvenation.
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Ian Condry Examines Japan’s Hip Hop
Hip Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization is the realization of many years of work for Ian Condry, an associate professor of Japanese cultural studies in MIT Foreign Languages and Literatures and a CMS faculty affiliate.
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In Medias Res, Summer 2006
From the start, Philip Khoury encouraged us to think big, to develop a graduate program worthy of MIT, one that would help to define future directions for our field.
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Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization
Ian Condry interprets Japan’s hip-hop scene, how a music and culture that originated halfway around the world is appropriated and remade.
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Fansubbing
Learn fansubbing–the process of adding subtitles to Japanese animation.
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Revolutionary Girl Utena Anime Series
We will present the entire 39-episode Japanese anime series which won both the Kobe and Best TV Animation awards at Animation Kobe ’97.
