Exegesis and authorial agency through judeo-christian iconography in Japanese anime : Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995-97) as an open work.

Sellés de Lucas, Víctor

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Exegesis and authorial agency through judeo-christian iconography in Japanese anime : Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995-97) as an open work.

dc.contributor	Hernández-Pérez, Manuel
dc.contributor.author	Sellés de Lucas, Víctor
dc.date.accessioned	2024-05-23T09:22:23Z
dc.date.available	2024-05-23T09:22:23Z
dc.date.issued	2024
dc.description.abstract	Abstract: Exegesis is a common practice when discussing religious texts. It has also been employed in the analysis of cultural production to elucidate the author's intentions. Japanese animation (anime) is a transnational industry with cases such as Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995-1997), in which the figure of an individual author, in this case the filmmaker Hideaki Anno, interacts with the collaborative authorship by the rest of the production team. The extensive use of obscure Judeo-Christian terminology and iconography in this work has risen debate about the actual intentions of Japanese author(s) when referring to Western culture. Our analysis concludes that the use of this iconography is intentional. The ambiguity of the narrative, shaped using multiple obscure references, aims to induce in the viewer the feeling of a complex text. This would reinforce the previous considerations of this anime as an "open work", in the sense defined by post-structural semiotic analysis.	en
dc.format	application/pdf	es
dc.format.extent	14	es
dc.identifier.citation	Imafronte, N. 31, 2023, p. 224-237.	es
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.6018/imafronte.569471
dc.identifier.issn	1989-4562
dc.identifier.issn	0213-392X
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/141781
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones.	es
dc.relation	Sin financiación externa a la Universidad.	es
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Exegesis	es
dc.subject	Open work	en
dc.subject	Semiotics	en
dc.subject	Anime	en
dc.subject	Authorship	en
dc.subject.other	CDU::7 Bellas artes	es
dc.title	Exegesis and authorial agency through judeo-christian iconography in Japanese anime : Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995-97) as an open work.	en
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication	es