Hayao Miyazaki: Exploring the Early Work of Japan's Greatest Animator (Animation: Key Films/Filmmakers)

Greenberg, Raz

ISBN 10: 1501361643 / ISBN 13: 9781501361647

Published by Fairchild Books, 2020

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pp. 192.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hayao Miyazaki: Exploring the Early Work of Japan's Greatest Animator (Animation: Key Films/Filmmakers)
• Publisher: Fairchild Books
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501361643
• ISBN 13: 9781501361647
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.

Hayao Miyazaki's career in animation has made him famous as not only the greatest director of animated features in Japan, the man behind classics as My Neighbour Totoro (1988) and Spirited Away (2001), but also as one of the most influential animators in the world, providing inspiration for animators in Disney, Pixar, Aardman, and many other leading studios.

However, the animated features directed by Miyazaki represent only a portion of his 50-year career. Hayao Miyazaki examines his earliest projects in detail, alongside the works of both Japanese and non-Japanese animators and comics artists that Miyazaki encountered throughout his early career, demonstrating how they all contributed to the familiar elements that made Miyazaki's own films respected and admired among both the Japanese and the global audience.

About the Authors

Raz Greenberg is a teaching fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published both academic and popular articles on animation in a variety of platforms, including the peer-reviewed journals Literature Film Quarterly and The Journal of Film and Video as well as print and online magazines including Animated Views and the ASIFA Journal, among others.

Chris Pallant is Head of the School of Design at University of Greenwich, UK. He is the author of Demystifying Disney (2011) and Storyboarding: A Critical History (2015), and editor of Animated Landscapes: History, Form and Function (2015) and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: New Perspectives on Production, Reception, Legacy (2021). He currently serves as President for the Society for Animation Studies.

Cristina Formenti is Assistant Professor in Film Studies at University of Udine, Italy. She is author of Il mockumentary: la fiction si maschera da documentario (2013), and editor of Mariangela Melato tra cinema, teatro e televisione (2016) and Valentina Cortese: un'attrice intermediale (2019). Her work has appeared in various national and international journals, such as Studies in Documentary Film, Alphaville, and Horror Studies. Dr. Formenti is also the co-editor of the journal Animation Studies and of the Bloomsbury series Animation: Key Films/Filmmakers and currently serves as President of the Society for Animation Studies.