Schoolgirls with Katanas: Appropriating Japaneseness and the Postmodern Cool in Sucker Punch
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-bgsu13355352612021-08-03T05:30:09Z Schoolgirls with Katanas: Appropriating Japaneseness and the Postmodern Cool in Sucker Punch Winters, Nathan S. American Studies Mass Media Orientalism Sucker Punch Postmodernism Cool Japan Cool has become the central tenet of postmodern consumption, defining the ways consumers interact with popular culture. Yet, the drive to produce cool media is not without its issues. Producers continue to push the envelope relying on spectacle and violence in order to capture the increasingly divided attention of an oversaturated market. These producers have started to return to an outdated worldview that stresses essentialism and otherness in an attempt to capitalize on global trends. In this thesis, I intend to explore how the recent film Sucker Punch utilizes images from Japanese popular culture in an attempt to be viewed as a cool film. In doing so, the film engages in a larger cultural discourse surrounding this idea of cool. The use of cool as a means of obscuring yet reinforcing ideology, Orientalism in particular, and the ways in which postmodernism assists in this process are key issues that I explore. In particular, I examine how Japanese imagery is contextualized within American media, the ways in which postmodernism functions as a cultural model that is still applicable today, and how cool has become the central issue within popular culture. By exploring these issues, this thesis addresses the dangers of the ideology of cool and the means by which it distracts audiences from underlying biases. 2012-07-26 English text Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1335535261 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1335535261 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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