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Anime tourism in Italy: Travelling to the locations of the Studio Ghibli films 意大利动漫之旅:前往吉卜力工作室电影的拍摄地

Mutual Images Journal Pub Date : 2021-12-20 DOI: 10.32926/2021.10.lav.italy

Giulia Lavarone, Marco Bellano

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Cute at an older age: A case study of Otona-Kawaii 年老时的可爱:Otona-Kawaii的案例研究

Mutual Images Journal Pub Date : 2021-12-20 DOI: 10.32926/2021.10.lie.otona

Shiri Lieber-Milo

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The Values in Numbers: Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age – Hyot Long 数字中的价值:阅读全球信息时代的日本文学- Hyot Long

Mutual Images Journal Pub Date : 2021-12-20 DOI: 10.32926/2021.10.r.you.value

Vicky Young

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Fashionable pilgrims: Rental and second-hand kimono shops styling paths of new embodied communities 时尚的朝圣者:租赁和服店和二手和服店的新体现社区风格的路径

Mutual Images Journal Pub Date : 2021-12-20 DOI: 10.32926/2021.10.dru.pilgr

Lucile Druet

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What is visual Vaporwave? Vaporwave arts and their history and position in China 什么是visualvaporwave ?汽波艺术及其在中国的历史和地位

Mutual Images Journal Pub Date : 2021-12-20 DOI: 10.32926/2021.10.zha.vapor

Xiaolong Zhang

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The virtual cultural tourist: Film-induced tourism and Kubo and the Two Strings 虚拟文化旅游:电影观光与久保与两根弦

Mutual Images Journal Pub Date : 2021-12-20 DOI: 10.32926/2021.10.yeo.virtu

Dennis Yeo

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Ipar Haizearen Erronka: A boat trip from the Basque Country to Newfoundland Ipar Haizearen Erronka:从巴斯克地区到纽芬兰的乘船旅行

Mutual Images Journal Pub Date : 2021-12-20 DOI: 10.32926/2021.10.jun.iparh

Maitane Junguitu Dronda

{"title":"Ipar Haizearen Erronka: A boat trip from the Basque Country to Newfoundland","authors":"Maitane Junguitu Dronda","doi":"10.32926/2021.10.jun.iparh","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32926/2021.10.jun.iparh","url":null,"abstract":"The nature of animated cinema involves the creation of any realistic or fantastical characters, places, and situations. Animation can be used to take characters far from their hometowns on believable journeys without big budgets used on location shooting.\u0000\u0000The Basque animated feature film Ipar Haizearen Erronka (The Challenge of the North Wind), directed in 1992 by Juanba Berasategi, illustrates how animation can represent a journey and a historic reality in a plausible way. The movie depicts a Basque whale hunting vessel travelling to the wild coast of Newfoundland, Canada in the sixteenth century. Typically, Basque live action movies in the 80s would recreate foreign locations with nearby settings. Ipar Haizearen Erronka avoids this problem by showing America through drawings.\u0000\u0000In this paper, we will use the movie Ipar Haizearen Erronka to interpret how animation uses backgrounds and objects to represent a voyage across the Atlantic Ocean and determine the realistic accuracy of the social and historical moments represented in the movie. We will also see how this journey embodies the characteristics of the literary genre of Bildungsroman, as well as the narrative structures pointed out by Vladimir Propp’s folktale and Joseph Campbell's monomyth. The study also focuses on how the film depicts the most representative characteristics of the journey, and how they are used as filming narrative resources. A closer look will be taken into the main vessels, the captain's logbook, the map, the historical context of the sailing of the ship, the maritime laws where sexism is abundant, the financing of the trip, and the work on board.","PeriodicalId":199469,"journal":{"name":"Mutual Images Journal","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133442376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Bodies in motion and image recomposition in the early 20th Century 20世纪初运动中的人体与图像重组

Mutual Images Journal Pub Date : 2021-12-20 DOI: 10.32926/2021.10.lon.bodie

A. Longo

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Journeying to the actual World through digital games: The Urban Histories Reloaded project 通过数字游戏进入现实世界:城市历史重装项目

Mutual Images Journal Pub Date : 2021-12-20 DOI: 10.32926/2021.10.cas.urban

S. Caselli, Farah Polato, Mauro Salvador

{"title":"Journeying to the actual World through digital games: The Urban Histories Reloaded project","authors":"S. Caselli, Farah Polato, Mauro Salvador","doi":"10.32926/2021.10.cas.urban","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32926/2021.10.cas.urban","url":null,"abstract":"The paper aims at reflecting on the potential of digital games to convey meaning, tell stories and, most importantly, become a tool to discover and experience the actual world. Using as a case study the experience of the Urban Histories Reloaded. Creatività videoludica per azioni di cittadinanza (Urban Histories Reloaded. Digital Game Creativity for citizenship actions) project (UHR), we will discuss the role digital games can play in activating territorial processes, by favouring the engagement with the actual world as well as with playful approaches to city living.\u0000\u0000In particular, we will focus on the artist residency for game designers, game artists, and game programmers held in Padua between September and October 2020 within the frame of the project and on its main outcome, the mobile game MostaScene. MostaScene consists of a fifteen-minute mobile game set in District 5 Armistizio-Savonarola of Padua. Both its design and its overall content have intertwined with the urban space since the very beginning.\u0000\u0000Above all, we will inspect the use of digital games for city-making actions via two different paths: on the one hand, through the involvement of stakeholders (public institutions and specific groups, but also and most importantly citizens) as co-designers; on the other hand, using digital games as non-functional experiences that may encourage innovative interpretations of the urban space for player.\u0000\u0000From a theoretical perspective, this research requires us to look at digital games as both fictional worlds that involve imagination and interpretation, as well as digital worlds that are experienced as part of reality in a phenomenological sense. Once this is acknowledged, we can provide an overview of how games can tackle reality and engage with the actual world.","PeriodicalId":199469,"journal":{"name":"Mutual Images Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129648163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Diverse Voices in Translation Studies in East Asia – Nana Sato-Rossberg & Uchiyama Akiko (eds) 东亚翻译研究中的多种声音——佐藤-罗斯伯格娜娜、内山明子编

Mutual Images Journal Pub Date : 2021-12-20 DOI: 10.32926/2021.10.r.tok.diver

Jamie Tokuno

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