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DOI: 10.1177/1746847708088732 Explosive, Expulsive, Extraordinary: The Dimensional Excess of Animated BodiesSwinburne University, PO Box 256, Flinders Lane, Melbourne 8009, Australia, saccharinmetric{at}gmail.com Animation's excursions into the impossible allow bodies to erupt and explode, fly and roar. While the histories of animation and special effects cinema are deeply linked in this regard, the sensation of viewing the physically impossible in animation has its own visual and cultural idiosyncrasies. The experience of watching bones splinter to thrash metal refuses psychology's primacy and transforms it into a kind of pure ornament. This article proposes a specific symbolic discourse of violence-animated texts, and more specifically anime via the European and Australasian releases of Manga Entertainment.
Key Words: anime body excess Manga (Entertainment) neo-Baroque violence
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