Miyazakiworld : a life in art

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

Item details

ISBN: 0300226853
ISBN: 9780300226850
Physical Description: print
xviii, 305 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
Copyright: ©2018

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-288) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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 : 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.