The Viewing Mind and Live-Action Japanese Television Series: A Cognitive Perspective on Gender Constructions in Seirei no Moribito (Guardian of the Spirit)

• Main Author: Kilpatrick, Helen Claire
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives 2019
• Subjects: Japanese television; gender; narrative strategies; cognitive processing; Moribito; Big River; taiga
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.6092/issn.2421-454x/9334; https://series.unibo.it/article/view/9334

The recent (2016–2018) live-action Japanese television series, Seirei no Moribito (Guardian of the Spirit), was produced by NHK in the vein of the taiga (big river) historical drama, but challenges this and other Japanese generic conventions through its production as a fantasy series, and through it...