REL 106 Gods, Myths, and Cartoons: Religion Animated
From Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away to Nina Paley’s controversial Sita Sings the Blues and the Chinese blockbuster Ne Zha, animation keeps reimagining gods, myths, and religious traditions. This course explores how sacred stories are celebrated, reinvented, or challenged onscreen, creating new values, critiques, and meanings. Through global films and series, we’ll examine animation as modern mythmaking, tracing how it adapts rituals, visualizes big ideas, and engages perennial questions of identity, morality, mortality, and modernity.
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