Forum - View topicManga in Education
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isaacada1
 Posts: 779 Location: Snohomish, WA |
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Has anyone been issued manga as a publication to read and write a paper on in school? Has anyone wrote papers about manga for their class?
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nagash
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Manga was barely in the market when I was in high school (late 80's), but when I started learning Japanese the teacher recommended Mangajin, both the magazine and the books, as it breaks down sentences and helps with some of the more complicated words.
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CorneredAngel
 Posts: 854 Location: New York, NY |
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Manga has been used in education in the US for a good ten years now. Consider Dr. Elizabeth Brooks' article "Japanese Popular Culture in the Classroom" (1994), which specifically addresses the academic uses of anime and manga. It is available at[http://www.indiana.edu/~japan/digest3.html].
A number of college-leve classes have since used manga. Some examples of courses are Japanimation and Manga(Bowdoin College - http://academic.bowdoin.edu/asianstudies/courses/s01/asi213), "Japanimation and Manga: Modern History and Material Culture in Japan" (Macalester College - http://www.deaflibrary.org/nakamura/courses/japanimation/index.shtml), an Advanced Japanese II class at SUNY-Albany (http://www.albany.edu/eas/eaj302.html) which uses the anime and manga versions of the title Master Keaton as the primary tool of instruction, and several others. A more or less comprehensive list is available at the ANIME on CAMPUS section of the Anime/Manga Web Essay Archive - http://www.corneredangel.com/amwess --- Likewise, a number of papers on manga have been written, both for class, academic conferences and publication in journals. Some of the more notable ones include: "Manga Goes Global" (http://www.ceri-sciencespo.com/archive/avril00/artjmb.pdf - presented at the conference "The Global Meaninig of Japan", 1998), "The World of Shoujo Manga" (http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/k/x/kxs334/shojomanga/index.html - written by a Penn State doctoral candidate), "Meiji and Manga: Japan's Past Through the Eyes of the Present" (http://www.hanabatake.com/research/meiji.html) and the works of Prof. Matt Thorn on shoujo manga, Dr. Sharon Kinsella, Dr. Mark McLelland, who particularly specializes in representations of homosexuality in manga, and others. Again, for more examples, I suggest turning to the ACADEMIC and SERIES sectons of the Anime/Manga Web Essay Archive, as well as Brian Ruh's excellent AnimeResearch.com |
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isaacada1
Posts: 779 Location: Snohomish, WA |
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There are some excellent references as well as comprehensive articles covering manga here.
http://www.kinsellaresearch.com/ |
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isaacada1
Posts: 779 Location: Snohomish, WA |
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Anyone else have sites they've found on this topic?
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space clam
Posts: 636 |
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I believe I have a whole thread of manga as reports and analyses laying around somewhere... I wish I were assigned to do something on manga specifically. (I'd be the only one in my class who would understand) I have done analyses on manga, and one book report on Buddha manga. Generally the process is similar to having fiberglass insulation thrust in my eyeballs, so I don't do it too often. *process of approval, that is.*
*edited for clarification* Last edited by space clam on Fri Nov 28, 2003 9:42 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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lianncoop
Past ANN Contributor
 Posts: 1705 Location: Indiana |
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Yes. A whole thread of discussion... animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4153 |
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littlegreenwolf
 Posts: 4796 Location: Seattle, WA |
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That thread was mainly on manga's literary value.
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