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By: Tommy Gaston
Anime: Orochimaru the Essentializing of Culture
Boiling a culture down to its bare essence.Oversimplification and it’s wrong to do.Thesis: Through a textual analysis of the
Orochimaru toy from the anime television show Naruto, this presentation will argue that once the toy is removed form the context of Japan, it represents an objectifying or essentializing Japanese culture into and American fantasy of an exotic “Japanese - ness”
What is essentialization
Fantasy of timeSuper past and
super futureBlending of the twoOrochimaru has
elements of feudal era
Deconstruction of American Masculinity: making an object of Japanese masculinity
Packaging and display: must appeal to young American boysIsle display: If it’s in
the boy isle it’s ok for me to want it.
Surrounding toys conform to American Archetypes.
Packaging color schemes: warm colors intense shades
America: objectified
Essentializing: constructions give false sense of understanding
Japan: exotic Japanese - ness
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understanding.
Essentialization: Conclusion
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