The Presence of the Line
(Preconstituted Panel: Anime Experiences)
Abstract: The presence of the ‘line’ in animation is arguably concomitant with both the inhabitance and invasion of space. In anime, the ‘outlines’ of characters both define and deconstruct identities and bodies and is made further problematic by being mapped onto exterior spaces and city shapes, as in Neon Genesis Evangelion. City spaces and human spaces are both erected and decomposed in Neon Genesis Evangelion and it is through an analysis of the line that this paper interrogates the many boundaries that such a line might shatter.
Biographical Statement: Caroline Ruddell is Lecturer in Film and Television at St. Mary’s University College, Twickenham, UK. She teaches in the areas of animation, North American cinema, popular culture and critical methodologies. Caroline has written on witchcraft in television, the representation of identity and subjectivity in popular culture, and on anime. Her research interests are currently focused on close analysis of anime examples in relation to issues of movement and space. Caroline is Co-Editor of the SAS Newsletter and serves on the editorial boards for Animation Studies: Journal for Animation History and Theory and Watcher Junior: Undergraduate Journal of Buffy Studies.
Entries (RSS)