Forum - View topicNEWS: UCI Lines up Guest Speakers for Anime Class
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fighterholic
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If only I'd transferred to UCI sooner!!
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trunkschan90
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I wish they had this in Cal State LA
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tripperdan99
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Wow, certainly looks like fun. I think I need to partition the professors of the local university to come up with something of this sort. They have all the politically correct crap they teach, why not something like this!! Heck, bet they could increase enrollment just on one or two courses.
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bluepita
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Lol, I got to take a great lit class on anime, but there were certainly no guest lecturers like this! Way to go. (Too soft hearted not to note that I did indeed love the lecturers we had.)
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ANN_Bamboo
ANN Contributor
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Anime classes are really popping up everywhere. I took a critical film analysis class at Brown about anime and manga, and it really opens up your eyes. We got the chance to see speakers like Napier and Mulvey, who are pretty fascinating.
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FiliKlepto
Posts: 17 Location: Nakano-ku, Tokyo |
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Eric Calderon from Gonzo was a guest speaker at my anime class at CSU Long Beach a year or so ago, and I have to say that I wasn't too impressed. First, he continually mispronounced a lot of words. He repeatedly said "ku-ga" instead of "koh-ga" for the kouga clan in Basilisk, and my teacher tried to correct him every time to no avail.
He also seemed to have only a shallow understand of Gonzo titles. He showed us a bit of Speed Grapher, but the description he gave us was completely different from what I later found out the series was about. And someone asked about Full Metal Panic, and he thought they were talking about FMA. Calderon seemed more interested in promoting his own project, Afro Samurai. Every sentence that came out of his mouth was "Afro Samurai," "Afro Samurai," "Afro Samurai..." Prepare yourselves, UCI. |
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Gonzo_Boy
Company Representative
Posts: 3 Location: Los Angeles |
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Whoa! Looks like I didn't do such a great job last year. I better study up to make sure the students are happy! Constructive criticism noted and appreciated... Eric Calderon
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FiliKlepto
Posts: 17 Location: Nakano-ku, Tokyo |
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Glad to hear it. I did learn some stuff about Gonzo from your presentation, and it was definitely cool to hear from someone in the industry. I won't deny that it was interesting to hear about Afro Samurai before info was widely available online. And I can understand that since it's you're pet project, you were eager to talk a lot about it. I guess, just tweak the presentation a bit (and brush up on your pronounciation  ), and you'll be good to go.
Thanks for not getting defensive, and I hope I didn't seem like a total jerk with my earlier statement. I was just trying to give my truthful opinion. |
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holl.e.rama
Posts: 102 Location: California |
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Aw, I was this close to going to Irvine (and now I'm in Wisconsin...what do ya know?) Sounds interesting though.
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Godaistudios
Posts: 2075 Location: Albuquerque, NM (the land of entrapment) |
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I'm thinking about UCI in a couple of years in pursuit of my theatre degree. It's a long road still, but I'm glad I have a few steps behind me.
Still, I can't imagine having any classes about anime as part of the cirriculum. It just seems... so out of place. 
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FiliKlepto
Posts: 17 Location: Nakano-ku, Tokyo |
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Really? I took it as a special topics class in the Japanese major. We learned about the history of manga and anime -- classics like Tezuka Osamu and contemporaries like Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli. There were also lectures on school life, samurai, ninja, and shinsengumi. ETA: I edited to add a period, BTW. Then once more to add this ETA note.
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Godaistudios
Posts: 2075 Location: Albuquerque, NM (the land of entrapment) |
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UNM - for where I am now, has a class entitled Topics in Japanese Literature and Culture in Translation, so I'm sure that it may come up as a topic, but no classes dedicated to anime.
Even the Media Arts department doesn't cover anything here on that end.
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bluepita
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The class I took taught anime as literature. Although I enjoy traditional lit classes, it was a nice break. The professor viewed anime as a text, and we used traditional techniques for analyzing lit on the anime itself. It included lots of discussion on themes, on picking up an idea of culture through media, a lecture on the history of shojo, the introduction of Campbell's hero's journey through Dragonball, the idea of the meaning of a text changing due to audience, and postmodernism. It was also usuable as our basic writing class, as academic writing techniques were taught. PIck any lit class, substitute anime for books, and there you go. It went well enough that the prof has been able to teach it almost every semester since the first class. Although the idea of having a real class on anime seems strange, it was a great experience and I learned as much there as in any class that sticks to traditional canon. (The professor of this class is actually a grad student who is doing her dissertation on an aspect of Miyazaki's work.) |
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