Issue 17
Vanishing Points

Cinema contaminated by comics: Shunji Iwai’s manga-eiga

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  • José Montaño Muñoz
José Montaño Muñoz
Universitat Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.63700/187

Published 2014-01-01

Keywords

  • Japanese film,
  • manga,
  • shôjo manga,
  • manga-eiga,
  • Shunji Iwai,
  • popular culture,
  • floating text.
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Montaño Muñoz, J. (2014). Cinema contaminated by comics: Shunji Iwai’s manga-eiga. L’Atalante. Journal of Film Studies, (17), 102–109. https://doi.org/10.63700/187
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Abstract

In contemporary popular Japanese culture, manga occupies a central position. The popularity of this cultural manifestation is evidenced in its capacity to influence other forms of artistic expression. This article studies this phenomenon at the cinematic level with the figure of Shunji Iwai, using three examples selected from his filmography. It analyzes the way in which Iwai appropriates certain characteristics of manga (especially the form for girls), such as the use of flowers and sparkles in order to surround the characters, floating text or complex perspectives and compositions with multiple points of view, elements that he puts into play in order to shape a language of his own that appears to explore the relationship between two media forms: the comic book and the moving picture.

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