Re-viewing Thomas Lamarre’s The Anime Machine after Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises: On the Critical Potential of Anime

• Main Author: Çalık, Selen
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: animetism/cinematism; anime research; Heideggerian philosophy of technology; media studies; structures of movement and depth
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss26/15; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1949/viewcontent/_5BKKv00n26_2016_5D_204.4_ForumKritika__C3_87alik.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This article aims to demonstrate how exactly Thomas Lamarre reads movement, plot, and characters in The Anime Machine (2009), as defined to an extent, yet not completely determined by the concept of the animetic machine. Mimicking the first part of Lamarre’s book, it approaches Miyazaki’s last work,...