Zachary Samuel Gottesman
Biographic Data
| ID | 935003 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zachary Samuel Gottesman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zachary Samuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Gottesman |
| SIGNATURE | GOTTESMAN Z S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Last Korean Animation
Wonderful Days (2003) was supposed to be the global breakthrough of Korean animation. After decades of government neglect and labor-intensive outsourcing work, the film aspired to show the world Korea’s new technical prowess in animation, combining 2-D, 3-D, and miniatures in a new “Multi-Type Layer Animation.” Funded by the Korean government and Samsung’s post – Asian financial crisis venture capital fund, the film also promised a new government…
The Japanese settler unconscious
This paper looks at recent isekai (‘different world’) anime in relation to 2018s Goblin Slayer. It argues the latter is a settler-colonialist critique of the unconscious structural violence within former’s tropes and presumptions. Isekai anime provide a space where superexploitation and the redistribution of surplus value are buried within a fantasy of non-alienated, non-commodified labor, and Goblin Slayer represents the exhaustion of this fanta…
The Rotoscopic Uncanny
CGI has led to a theoretical revolution in media studies. What is cinema when reality can be created on a computer? What is animation when superflat 2D aesthetics are becoming haunted by 3D digital graphics? This article adds a third term to the debate: rotoscoping. The author analyzes the first exclusively rotoscoped Japanese anime, Aku no Hana (The Flowers of Evil), a contemporary reinterpretation of Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal that …
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The Rotoscopic Uncanny
CGI has led to a theoretical revolution in media studies. What is cinema when reality can be created on a computer? What is animation when superflat 2D aesthetics are becoming haunted by 3D digital graphics? This article adds a third term to the debate: rotoscoping. The author analyzes the first exclusively rotoscoped Japanese anime, Aku no Hana (The Flowers of Evil), a contemporary reinterpretation of Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal that …
The Japanese settler unconscious
This paper looks at recent isekai (‘different world’) anime in relation to 2018s Goblin Slayer. It argues the latter is a settler-colonialist critique of the unconscious structural violence within former’s tropes and presumptions. Isekai anime provide a space where superexploitation and the redistribution of surplus value are buried within a fantasy of non-alienated, non-commodified labor, and Goblin Slayer represents the exhaustion of this fanta…
The Last Korean Animation
Wonderful Days (2003) was supposed to be the global breakthrough of Korean animation. After decades of government neglect and labor-intensive outsourcing work, the film aspired to show the world Korea’s new technical prowess in animation, combining 2-D, 3-D, and miniatures in a new “Multi-Type Layer Animation.” Funded by the Korean government and Samsung’s post – Asian financial crisis venture capital fund, the film also promised a new government…
Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (3 works) · Japanese History and Culture (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Capitalism (2 works) · Ideology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)