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The story of filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki's life and work, including his significant impact on Japan and the world“An essential work in anime scholarship.”—Angelica Frey, HyperallergicA thirtieth‑century toxic jungle, a bathhouse for tired gods, a red‑haired fish girl, and a furry woodland spirit—what do these have in common? They all spring from the mind of Hayao Miyazaki, one of the greatest living animators, known worldwide for films such as My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, and The Wind Rises.Japanese culture and animation scholar Susan Napier explores the life and art of this extraordinary Japanese filmmaker to provide a definitive account of his oeuvre. Napier insightfully illuminates the multiple themes crisscrossing his work, from empowered women to environmental nightmares to utopian dreams, creating an unforgettable portrait of a man whose art challenged Hollywood dominance and ushered in a new chapter of global popular culture.

Disney and Ghibli: Two animation empires, two worldviews, and a century-long quest to imagine a better futureThis groundbreaking book tells the story of the creative dialogue—and creative rivalry—between the world’s two most influential animation studios: Walt Disney Studios and Studio Ghibli. Susan Napier reveals how the films of Walt Disney (1901–1966) and Hayao Miyazaki (b. 1941) offered radically different visions of hope and happiness—visions shaped by the contrasting histories of twentieth‑century America and postwar Japan.Inspired by sometimes-harmonizing, sometimes-opposing philosophies, the studios complicate, echo, and haunt each other as they grapple with the aftermath of devastating world wars, shifting gender norms, seismic technological advancements, and encroaching ecological destruction. Author of the acclaimed Miyazakiworld, Napier blends cultural history with close readings of these beloved films to explore• How Disney and Ghibli imagined utopia after war and trauma• Why Ghibli’s worldview resonates powerfully in the twenty‑first century• Evolving depictions of heroines, childhood, technology, and animism• The global cultural impact of animation as a serious art form• Ghibli’s growing influence on Disney itselfDrawing on deep knowledge of animated cinema and Japanese culture, Napier offers an essential guide to how animation has shaped—and continues to reshape—our collective imagination.

Modern Japan's repressed anxieties, fears and hopes come to the surface in the fantastic. A close analysis of fantasy fiction, film and comics reveals the ambivalence felt by many Japanese towards the success story of the nation in the twentieth century.The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature explores the dark side to Japanese literature and Japanese society. It takes in the nightmarish future depicted in the animated film masterpiece, Akira, and the pastoral dream worlds created by Japan's Nobel Prize winning author Oe Kenzaburo. A wide range of fantasists, many discussed here in English for the first time, form the basis for a ground-breaking analysis of utopias, dystopias, the disturbing relationship between women, sexuality and modernity, and the role of the alien in the fantastic.

Modern Japan's repressed anxieties, fears and hopes come to the surface in the fantastic. A close analysis of fantasy fiction, film and comics reveals the ambivalence felt by many Japanese towards the success story of the nation in the twentieth century.The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature explores the dark side to Japanese literature and Japanese society. It takes in the nightmarish future depicted in the animated film masterpiece, Akira, and the pastoral dream worlds created by Japan's Nobel Prize winning author Oe Kenzaburo. A wide range of fantasists, many discussed here in English for the first time, form the basis for a ground-breaking analysis of utopias, dystopias, the disturbing relationship between women, sexuality and modernity, and the role of the alien in the fantastic.

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