Proto-research question(s)
- Cultural differences can affect how the audience perceive artworks?
- Why cultural tropes work better through art rather than through any other means of communication?
- To what extent is importance of universal understanding in art? (With the cost of diluting the difference in culture, diversity, individuality)
- Perhaps look into editorial illustrations and ways of visually communicating, semiotics.
- Getting the message across a global audience.
- Look into culture appropriation in art (Orientalism?)
- Studio Ghibli made movies for the western audience and the US release edited two sequences as they deemed that it is irrelevant to western culture and that the general audience would not understand the cultural reference (Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese animation. Helen McCarthy, 2002)
- It was an interesting point that they had a part removed due to cultural irrelevance despite it obviously being a Japanese made animation.
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| My Neighbor Totoro, Studio Ghibli (1988). The statues is a common symbol of protecting children in the Japanese Religion. |
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