The influence of the futuristic metropolis and the technologised city in Japanese animated films. Rintaro's Metropolis as a setting of frantic and fascinating narrative power

Abstract

Abstract:

On the basis of the japanese animation model, with its consequent features and symbolisms and its cultural idiosyncrasies, a research will be carried out on the power that the city imposes on the animated film narrative. It will be approached from the perspective of a mainly qualitative analysis based on a method of studying the content of two concepts: post-apocalyptic and cybersociety in Rintaro's film Metropolis.  The city, as the main character of the story, will allow us to examine the visual, aesthetic and thematic concepts that define and constitute the film. The case study of the influence of the futuristic metropolis and the technologised city in japanese animated film subjects brings the selected feature film to a procedure of narrative and visual references that, two decades after its release, has positioned Metropolis as one of the main anime products of cinematic exploration indispensable in the advancement of popular film culture.