Miyazakiworld : a life in art /

The story of filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki's life and work, including his significant impact on Japan and the world.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Napier, Susan Jolliffe (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2018.
©2018
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: In search of Miyazakiworld
  • Hametsu
  • Constructing an animator
  • The joy of movement
  • Ups and downs : Castle of Cagliostro
  • Nausicaä and "the feminine principle"
  • Orphans of the sky : Laputa: Castle in the Sky
  • Umbrellas in the haunted forest : transcending national and personal trauma in My Neighbor Totoro
  • The witch and the city : time, space, and gender in Kiki's Delivery Service
  • Porco Rosso lands in Casablanca
  • From messiah to shaman : the Nausicaä manga seeks light in the darkness
  • The faces of others : boundary crossing in Princess Mononoke
  • The intimate apocalypse of Spirited Away
  • The castle, the curse, and the collectivity : Howl's Moving Castle
  • Rich and strange : the apocalypse of the innocents in Ponyo
  • "A terrible wind" : The Wind Rises
  • Conclusion.