The animation of Anne: Japanese anime encounters the diary of a holocaust icon.
| Publisher | Post Script, Inc. |
| Publication | Post Script |
| Subject | Business |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0277-9897 |
| Issues per Year | 3 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Published | 2004-09-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | Portrayals | Anne Frank |
| Person | Works | Akinori Nagaoka |
| Author | n/a | Hema Ramachandran |
This essay focuses on a close analysis of the Japanese anime feature film Anne no nikki ("Diary of Anne Frank"; dir. Akinori Nagaoka, 1995), and is part of a substantially larger project whose aim is to find out if there were any sustained responses to the Holocaust--the systematic mass murder of Jews in Europe by Germany's Nazi regime--from non-Euro-American subject positions. (1)
My initial research concentrated primarily on Asian responses to the horrors of the Final Solution, and I specifically did not include Japanese reactions since part of the impetus behind the...
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