Queering Animation: the Animated Aesthetics of Queerness in the Works of Satoshi Kon

Graduate Thesis Or Dissertation

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Citeable URL: https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/graduate_thesis_or_dissertations/dr26xx81d

Abstract

Animation has been regarded as a marginalized medium, one that can carry nonnormative messages. The queerness of animation can be found in its form, style, and narrative techniques. By analyzing the works of Japanese anime director, Satoshi Kon, specific queer strategies and aesthetics can be teased out and explored. In particular, Kon’s use of reflexive cinematic devices to disorient, disrupt, and resist historical conventions create uniquely queer works. By examining how these techniques lend themselves to queering normative codes, we begin to understand how queer aesthetics are ones marked by resistance, creativity and transformation.

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