Forum - View topicManga in College?
|
|
| Author | Message | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Kagemusha
 Posts: 2783 Location: Boston |
|
||
|
I've heard of many examples of anime being used at colleges, but I have never heard of a work of manga being used until now. Apparantly, a course at the University of Florida includes Blade of the Immortal: Dreamsong TPB as one of its works. I'm sure there must be more, so has anyone heard of another work of manga being used in a college?
|
|||
|
|||
qollocust
 Posts: 182 Location: Philadelphia |
|
||
|
My best friend is at the University of Rochester and she told me they offer a class about anime and manga. She hasn't taken it yet so I don't know what it entails.
|
|||
|
|||
Haiseikoh 1973
 Posts: 1590 Location: Waiting for the Japanese 1000 Gunieas. |
|
||
|
Wasn't Shirow (The creator of Ghost in the Shell) a Professor at some College in Kyoto or somewhere near their?
|
|||
|
|||
|
dormcat
Encyclopedia Editor
 Posts: 9903 Location: New Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC |
|
||
|
Check out A&H 3300 class "Natural Wonders" at the University of Texas at Dallas with Dr. Marc Hairston using Nausicaa and On Your Mark as course material. Detail info here. Dr. Hairston also has a great page talking about anime in general and about his favorites.
It was opened in '99 and '00. Wonder if they still have it today. |
|||
|
|||
|
Haiseikoh 1973
Posts: 1590 Location: Waiting for the Japanese 1000 Gunieas. |
|
||
Just as I figured.... Is it just me, or does 95% of these College Sites have a mondo ammount of Broken links? Tried to find the Course list, and not even half the links linked to anything!! |
|||
|
|||
|
Kagemusha
Posts: 2783 Location: Boston |
|
||
I think he was a high school teacher for art, but I'm not sure. I remember that I heard he got sick of teaching so he decided to become a full time manga artist. He did publish something when he was teaching (I think it was Black Magic, or maybe Orion) |
|||
|
|||
darkhunter
 Posts: 2992 Location: Los Angelas |
|
||
|
Want to study manga? Just use the library and find some books on it. There are some good book on the history of manga and the art. Read it for what's it worth. Not worth studying though.
|
|||
|
|||
|
Kagemusha
Posts: 2783 Location: Boston |
|
||
|
I'm not really talking about courses on manga, I'm talking about courses that feature manga as part of their reading, along with regular books.
|
|||
|
|||
|
darkhunter
Posts: 2992 Location: Los Angelas |
|
||
|
I think the best possible situation that a manga be used is if the class has somethig to do with japanese literature or an art class.
|
|||
|
|||
|
Kagemusha
Posts: 2783 Location: Boston |
|
||
|
I disagree. Certain works of manga can hold their own against other litterature. American comics have been used in college, so it makes perfect sense for great, mature works of manga to be included. I suspect Dreamsong was included in this course for its deep portrail of the character Makie.
|
|||
|
|||
Kanae
 Posts: 118 |
|
||
|
My Detective Fiction class uses American comic books as part of the assigned reading (Psychoanalysis, David Boring, Eightball #23). I wish the prof. would use manga!
[edit: gah, I'm the typo monster these days. Must be all the *cough* partying.] Last edited by Kanae on Sun Sep 26, 2004 9:44 pm; edited 1 time in total |
|||
|
|||
|
Kagemusha
Posts: 2783 Location: Boston |
|
||
|
One crime course does use 100 Bullets, which makes perfect sense. At my school they use Maus (I'm assuming for a course on the holocaust) and The Dark Knight Returns (which means I don't have to buy it) for several courses.
|
|||
|
|||
CorneredAngel
 Posts: 856 Location: New York, NY |
|
||
|
Just because it's much easier for both students and professors to deal with a film or two than with manga, anime has appeared much more frequenly on college class syllabi than manga has. However, classes I've seen that have students reading manga include:
Japanimation and Manga (Bowdoin College, titles including A, A', X, Nausicaa, Adolf, Fushigi Yuugi) Currents in Japanese Popular Literature (Cal State - Monterey Bay) Japanimation and Manga: History and Material Culture in Modern Japan (Macalester College) Japanese Animation and Manga (Portland State University, professor is Dr. Antonia Levi, author of "Samurai in Outer Space") In addition, many courses on modern Japanese literature, SF, and post-colonial literature may include manga titles, or in any case, professors are certainly open to the argument that manga titles may be included in course reading lists. |
|||
|
|||
 |
All times are GMT - 5 Hours |
|
|
|
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group