Half-Naked Bodies in Anime and Western Culture Industry: Intercultural Remarks on the Aesthetics of Transgression

Loading...
Thumbnail Image

URL

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

J Muu elektroninen julkaisu

Date

2020

Department

Major/Subject

Mcode

Degree programme

Language

en

Pages

Pages 22-37

Series

POPULAR INQUIRY: The Journal of the Aesthetics of Kitsch, Camp and Mass Culture, 3/2020

Abstract

This article takes into consideration some popular entertainment products and the way they present the image of the feminine body, questioning the way the body is portrayed and how this portrayal affects the representation of beauty, desire, and sex. The intercultural perspective refers to the Eastern and Western culture, and considers the issues of prohibition and its inherent transgression. A movie offers models or life-styles consistent with the social system and it also presents these models and life-styles as pre-arranged transgressions of the given rules. In doing so, it prescribes a model of tolerated transgression rather than a prohibition. In this way, the culture industry prescribes the transgression of an empty prohibition as a strategy of individual emancipation.

Description

Keywords

Entertainment products, Image, Feminine body, Half-Naked Bodies, Anime, Transgression, Culture industry, Beauty, Desire, Sex, Eastern culture, Western culture, Intercultural perspective

Other note

Citation