Abstract
Satoshi Kon is a Japanese animation film director whose works, story, and imagery suggest altered mental states, such as insanity or dreaming. Millennium Actress (2001), which this author regards as Kon's magnum opus, uses a dream-like style of animation and filmmaking to create the narrative of a biography of a fictional actress. In this feature-length animated film, Kon reifies theories and findings from the functions of dreaming and the mechanics of dream that have developed over a hundred years since the early 20th century. The oneiric quality of the animation film is explored using both psychoanalytical/psychological theories and neuroscientific frameworks to reveal its story of a feminine journey in relation to the collective unconscious and mythic story structure, and the cinematic editing techniques that help the storytelling lead to the dream state.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 85-97 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Animation |
Volume | 8 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2013 Mar |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Millennium Actress
- Satoshi Kon
- animation
- anime
- cognition
- emotion
- experimental narrative
- feminine
- mental states
- monomyth
- oneirics
- psychoanalysis
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts