Understand Organic Mirrors - Reflections on and by Characters' Bodies in Shojo Manga Angel Sanctuary
Organic Mirrors - Reflections on and by Characters' Bodies in Shojo Manga Angel Sanctuary By:Heike Stindt Published on 2006-08-16 by GRIN Verlag ( DOWNLOAD NOW ) Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 1, University of Siegen, course: Introductory seminar: 'Under the Influence: Asian Film Traditions and Hollywood', 7 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Although products of a highly commercialised entertainment industry, Japan’s manga are still rooted in a tradition of refined figurative self-reflection. Especially theatrical practice with its multiple forms of expression affected manga in a way that it began to feature the human body as the most flexible symbol of both physical and psychical concerns. “In Japanese [...] comics this protean transforming body is sometimes grotesque [...], sometimes alluring [...], but always memorable. [...] In this fantastic mode, ranging f...