Race and the Animated Bodyscape: Constructing and Ascribing a Racialized Asian Identity in Avatar and Korra

by Francis M. Agnoli

Overview

How race is constructed and ascribed in the fantasy world of one popular US franchise

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496845085
Publisher:	University Press of Mississippi
Publication date:	04/21/2023
Edition description:	Hardback
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Francis M. Agnoli is an independent animation scholar who specializes in the production of racialized identities in US television animation. His work has been published in the edited collection Fantasy/Animation: Connections Between Media, Mediums and Genres and in the journals Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal and Animation Studies.

Editorial Reviews

Francis M. Agnoli provides a thorough study of the American TV anime series Avatar and Korra. By exploring the complexities of the production process, this book offers needful insight into matters of race, Asian identity, and the concept of the animated bodyscape.--Tze-yue G. Hu, author of Frames of Anime: Culture and Image-Building and coeditor of Animating the Spirited: Journeys and Transformations

Francis M. Agnoli's work is ahead of the curve in dealing with American animation efforts to represent Asian-ness and with the international production system that is becoming the standard for the industry.--Richard J. Leskosky, independent animation studies scholar and former president of the Society for Animation Studies

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