Mutual Images Journal

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No. 10 (2021)
Published December 20, 2021

Mutual Images is an annual, double-blind peer-reviewed and transcultural research journal, established in 2016 by the scholarly, non-profit and independent Mutual Images Research Association (MIRA), and registered under the ISSN 2496-1868. Its field of interest is the analysis and discussion of the ever-changing, multifaceted relations between Europe and Asia, and between specific European countries or regions and specific Asian countries or regions. A privileged area of investigation concerns the mutual cultural influences between Japan and other national or regional contexts, with a special emphasis on visual domains, media studies, the cultural and creative industries, and popular imagination at large.

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Dennis Yeo
3-20
The virtual cultural tourist: Film-induced tourism and Kubo and the Two Strings
https://doi.org/10.32926/2021.10.yeo.virtu
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Giovanni Ruscica
21-50
From China to the World: The main media pilgrimages of Sun Wukong and Son Gokū
https://doi.org/10.32926/2021.10.rus.china
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Lucile Druet
51-92
Fashionable pilgrims: Rental and second-hand kimono shops styling paths of new embodied communities
https://doi.org/10.32926/2021.10.dru.pilgr
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Shiri Lieber-Milo
93-108
Cute at an older age: A case study of Otona-Kawaii
https://doi.org/10.32926/2021.10.lie.otona
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Olga Antononoka
109-134
Undermining the gendered genre: Kabuki in manga
https://doi.org/10.32926/2021.10.ant.under
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Jeremy Brooker
137-170
In the steps of the Prophets: The dissemination and reinterpretation of David Roberts’ Holy Lands sketches through the Shows of London
https://doi.org/10.32926/2021.10.bro.jerem
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Angela Longo
171-190
Bodies in motion and image recomposition in the early 20th Century
https://doi.org/10.32926/2021.10.lon.bodie
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Nicolas Bilchi
191-216
Immersed, yet distant: Notes for an aesthetic theory of immersive travel films
https://doi.org/10.32926/2021.10.bil.immer
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Giulia Lavarone, Marco Bellano
217-250
Anime tourism in Italy: Travelling to the locations of the Studio Ghibli films
https://doi.org/10.32926/2021.10.lav.italy
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Maitane Junguitu Dronda
251-270
Ipar Haizearen Erronka: A boat trip from the Basque Country to Newfoundland
https://doi.org/10.32926/2021.10.jun.iparh
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Stefano Caselli, Farah Polato, Mauro Salvador
271-294
Journeying to the actual World through digital games: The Urban Histories Reloaded project
https://doi.org/10.32926/2021.10.cas.urban
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Xiaolong Zhang
295-326
What is visual Vaporwave? Vaporwave arts and their history and position in China
https://doi.org/10.32926/2021.10.zha.vapor
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