Day one test message :)
Week 7 First off, Maus is fantastic. In animation, we talk a lot about taking stories and changing the character's appearance or anthropomorphizing them in order to amplify the story and clarity. For example, in Zootopia, they use animal species to get across the theme of how we racially profile people. Art Spiegelman did just that by taking one of the most famous conflict stereotypes, Cat and mouse, in order to highlight the conflict of Jews versus the Nazis. This helped us to easily identify the association of characters because if you were to depict a Jew in the way many cartoons caricature them, you would be quick to dissociate yourself with the character due to the unappealing way they are depicted. So overall, I loved the way he caricatured his character groups because it made them more cartoon-like, but also amplified the idea he was trying to send. What I also admired about the reading is the perspective from which we are receiving the information. I feel like if we...
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