Abridged anime and the distance in fan-dubbing: Interpreting culture through parody and fan appropriation

IF 1.5 2区社会学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES

International Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-07 DOI:10.1177/13678779221145439

Jacob Mertens

引用次数: 1

Abstract

This article explores the fan-dubbing practice of ‘abridged anime’ on YouTube and considers the implications involving the creators’ cultural distance from their transnational source material. In this case study, I argue that the practice of parody and fan appropriation can be viewed within the context of global media flows and cultural reinterpretation, suggesting a toxic fan culture that either trivializes or distorts the original text. By focusing on numerous abridged anime series and creator interviews, and framing that analysis within the theorization of parodic transgression, I demonstrate that these fan practices can take on either orientalist or sexist perspectives and move us further from a nuanced cultural understanding of the text itself.

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删节动漫与粉丝配音的距离:通过模仿和粉丝挪用解读文化

本文探讨了YouTube上“删节动画”的粉丝配音实践，并考虑了创作者与其跨国源材料的文化距离的影响。在这个案例研究中，我认为模仿和粉丝挪用的做法可以在全球媒体流动和文化重新诠释的背景下看待，这表明一种有毒的粉丝文化，要么轻视要么扭曲了原始文本。通过关注大量删节的动漫系列和创作者访谈，并在模仿越界的理论框架内进行分析，我证明了这些粉丝的做法可以采取东方主义或性别歧视的观点，并使我们进一步远离对文本本身的细微文化理解。

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International Journal of Cultural Studies Multiple-

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4.20

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9.50%

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期刊介绍： International Journal of Cultural Studies is committed to rethinking cultural practices, processes, texts and infrastructures beyond traditional national frameworks and regional biases. The journal publishes theoretical, empirical and historical analyses that interrogate what culture means, and what culture does, across global and local scales of power and action, diverse technologies and forms of mediation, and multiple dimensions of performance, experience and identity. Dedicated to theoretical and methodological innovation in cultural research, the journal is multidisciplinary in outlook, publishing relevant contributions that integrate approaches from the social sciences, humanities, information sciences and more. International Journal of Cultural Studies publishes original research articles. The journal gives preference to papers that extend existing theory or generate new theory through interpretive engagement with empirical cases. Papers based on single country case-studies should clearly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses for an international readership. The journal does not publish close readings of single texts; but it does consider critical, contextualised readings that similarly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses to the field. International Journal of Cultural Studies regularly publishes special issues on urgent questions in the field as well as on specific regions, industries and practices.