国際芸術創造研究科（GA)では、修士1年生の必修科目「グローバル時代の芸術文化概論」にて、毎年海外からのゲストを招いて特別講義を実施しています。芸術文化の理論と調査をテーマとした今回は、アメリカ・ハーバード大学よりメディアとポピュラー文化の専門家依田富子氏とアレクサンダー・ザルテン氏をお招きし、講義「メディア・スタディーズと日本」を開催します。

日時：2019年7月5日（金）16:20～17:50
場所：東京藝術大学上野キャンパス　大学会館２階　GA講義室

＊他学科・研究科からの参加も歓迎します。
＊講義は英語で行われます（通訳なし）。

Lecture 1.

Tomiko Yoda
Takashima Professor of Japanese Humanities in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, USA

 “Prince is Dead, We have Killed Him: Girl Revolution and Feminist World-Building”

Television anime series Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997) is a good specimen of what I refer to as the pop pharmakon. On the one hand, it constantly insists on its own artificiality and frivolity, steeped in the generic cliché of girls’ manga/anime and delivered through the commercial broadc­­­­­ast television network.  At the same time, it explores the possibility of flipping poison into care, inviting the audience to imagine how to break the toxic attachment to “princess narrative,” exposing its hidden rules and mechanisms, including the disavowed and exploited abject femininity.  Revolutionary Girl’s pharmacological gambit took on new forms in the process of its migration to the big screen.  Although the production of theater-release movie version of hit television anime is a common practice, Revolutionary Girl: Adolescence Apocalypse (1999) is neither a sequel, prequel, parallel narrative, spin-off, compilation film nor an alternative ending to the television series.  The film not so much extends the Utena world than render it intensive through non-linear seriality.  In particular, I will argue that in its transition from television to film, Utena franchise shifts its focus from the ideological critique to the question of desire as “the creation of new possible,” the desire for a new world.

・Profile

Tomiko Yoda is the Takashima Professor of Japanese Humanities in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University. Her specialization includes Japanese literature, media studies, and feminist studies. She is the author of Gender and National Literature: Heian Texts and the Constructions of Japanese Modernity (Duke UP), and co-editor with Harry Harootunian of Japan After Japan: Social and Cultural Life from the Recessionary 1990s to the Present (Duke UP).