Brutality in Anime
ENG-280M-1
Binghamton University
- Semester
- Summer 2024
- Instructor
- Nimisha Sinha
- Start Date
- 07-08-2024
- Total Credits
- 4
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In this course, we will watch anime characters being eaten alive, ripped apart, decapitated, beaten bloody and more. In doing so, we will try to find out why we are drawn to gore, violence, bloodshed, and scenes of torture in anime like Hunter X Hunter (2011), Attack on Titan (2013), Tokyo Ghoul (2014), and Parasyte (2014). When we look at brutal acts being performed, a good response is to recoil in fear or even disgust. However, anime as a medium complicates our understanding of corporeality, and consequently, of bodily excess, harm, and even of the physically impossible. We will see how the medium and its aesthetics impact our relationship with gore and deliberate on the ethics of being a spectator (or even a voyeur) of animated violence. We will critically examine gendered, racial, and class violence and explore how traditions of the Asian Gothic influence popular imaginations of gore.
Course Area: English & Literature
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Dates: 07-08-2024 - 08-09-2024
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