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(2011) Valuing films, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
My chapter examines the values fans place on anime (Japanese animation), and documents their use of these texts within material social contexts. As a fan study, I foreground enthusiasts' comments, collected via an online questionnaire of open and closed questions. But I intend not to divorce the text from such accounts, arguing, as Annette Kuhn does, that along with what spectators say, we should treat "historical and film textual materials … discursively" (2002: 12). My tripartite investigation therefore brings together the views of members of Anime Societies at three British universities (East Anglia, Warwick and Winchester), a textual study of Hayao Miyazaki's films, and Susan Napier's (2007) understanding of how Japanese animation and its fandom correlate to previous cultural exchanges between the West and Japan.
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Allen, S. (2011)., Getting animated — valuing anime, in L. Hubner (ed.), Valuing films, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 69-87.
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