Weaponizing collective energy: Dragon Ball Z in the anti-neoliberal Chilean protest movement
2018; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 17; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/15405702.2018.1554807
ISSN1540-5710
Autores Tópico(s)Japanese History and Culture
ResumoBy examining textually referential performance and evocation during the 2011 student-led protests in Chile, this article looks at how one particular protest event structured as an elaborate recreation of the anime Dragon Ball Z (1989) may be used as a cypher to the nature of anime's presence and affective impact in the wider Latin American popular consciousness. By connecting this protest's mobilization of this anime text as both a cultural referent and an allegorical evocation of collective political power to a wider history of anime culture in Chile, this case study illuminates intangible but powerful and largely unexamined dimensions of Japanese media's influence in Latin American culture and the articulation of social agendas in the region. It likewise suggests in what ways similar textual trajectories and flows may be understood outside dominant Anglo-American perspectives of cross-cultural affective relationships with globally circulating media.
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