Rediscovered Classics Of Japanese Animation

Author : Maria Chiara Oltolini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781501389863
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rediscovered Classics of Japanese Animation written by Maria Chiara Oltolini and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first academic work to examine the Japanese World Masterpiece Theater (Sekai Meisaku Gekijô, 1969-2009), which popularized the practice of adapting foreign children's books into long-running animated series and laid the groundwork for powerhouses like Studio Ghibli."--

Author : Maria Chiara Oltolini
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501389882
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rediscovered Classics of Japanese Animation written by Maria Chiara Oltolini and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscovered Classics of Japanese Animation is the first academic work to examine World Masterpiece Theater (Sekai Meisaku Gekijô, 1969-2009), which popularized the practice of adapting foreign children's books into long-running animated series and laid the groundwork for powerhouses like Studio Ghibli. World Masterpiece Theater (Sekai Meisaku Gekijô, 1969-2009) is a TV staple created by the Japanese studio Nippon Animation, which popularized the practice of adapting foreign children's books into long-running animated series. Once generally dismissed by critics, the series is now frequently investigated as a key early work of legendary animators Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki. In the first book-length examination of the series, Maria Chiara Oltolini analyzes cultural significance of World Masterpiece Theater, and the ways in which the series pioneered the importance of children's fiction for Japanese animation studios and laid the groundwork for powerhouses like Studio Ghibli. Adapting a novel for animation also means decoding (and re-coding) socio-cultural patterns embedded in a narrative. World Masterpiece Theater stands as a unique example of this linguistic, medial, and cultural hybridisation. Popular children's classics such as Little Women, Peter Pan, and Anne of Green Gables became the starting point of a full-fledged negotiation process in which Japanese animators retold a whole range of narratives that have one basic formula in common: archetypal stories with an educational purpose. In particular, the series played a role in shaping the pop culture image of a young girl (shôjo). Examining the series through the lens of animation studies as well as adaptation studies, Oltolini sheds new light on this long-neglected staple of Japanese animation history.

Author : Brian Camp
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press
ISBN 13 : 1611725194
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anime Classics Zettai! written by Brian Camp and published by Stone Bridge Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anime connoisseurs, beginners, and the curious, the best of the best!

Author : Raz Greenberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501335960
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hayao Miyazaki written by Raz Greenberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jonathan Clements
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anime Encyclopedia written by Jonathan Clements and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encyclopedia of Japanese animation and comics made since 1917.

Author : Frank Abe
Publisher : Chin Music Press
ISBN 13 : 1634050312
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book WE HEREBY REFUSE written by Frank Abe and published by Chin Music Press. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three voices. Three acts of defiance. One mass injustice. The story of camp as you’ve never seen it before. Japanese Americans complied when evicted from their homes in World War II -- but many refused to submit to imprisonment in American concentration camps without a fight. In this groundbreaking graphic novel, meet JIM AKUTSU, the inspiration for John Okada’s No-No Boy, who refuses to be drafted from the camp at Minidoka when classified as a non-citizen, an enemy alien; HIROSHI KASHIWAGI, who resists government pressure to sign a loyalty oath at Tule Lake, but yields to family pressure to renounce his U.S. citizenship; and MITSUYE ENDO, a reluctant recruit to a lawsuit contesting her imprisonment, who refuses a chance to leave the camp at Topaz so that her case could reach the U.S. Supreme Court. Based upon painstaking research, We Hereby Refuse presents an original vision of America’s past with disturbing links to the American present.

Author : Gilles Poitras
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press
ISBN 13 : 1880656965
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anime Companion 2 written by Gilles Poitras and published by Stone Bridge Press. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Become an expert on cultural details commonly seen in Japanese animation, movies, comics and TV shows.

Author : Alex Dudok de Wit
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838719253
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grave of the Fireflies written by Alex Dudok de Wit and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On its release in 1988, Grave of the Fireflies riveted audiences with its uncompromising drama. Directed by Isao Takahata at Studio Ghibli and based on an autobiographical story by Akiyuki Nosaka, the story of two Japanese children struggling to survive in the dying days of the Second World War unfolds with a gritty realism unprecedented in animation. Grave of the Fireflies has since been hailed as a classic of both anime and war cinema. In 2018, USA Today ranked it the greatest animated film of all time. Yet Ghibli's sombre masterpiece remains little analysed outside Japan, even as its meaning is fiercely contested - Takahata himself lamented that few had grasped his message. In the first book-length study of the film in English, Alex Dudok de Wit explores its themes, visual devices and groundbreaking use of animation, as well as the political context in which it was made. Drawing on untranslated accounts by the film's crew, he also describes its troubled production, which almost spelt disaster for Takahata and his studio.

Author : Chris Stuckmann
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1633537331
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anime Impact written by Chris Stuckmann and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2018-04-15 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of anime’s masterpieces and game-changers from the 1960s to the present—with contributions from writers, artists, superfans and more. Anime—or Japanese animation—has been popular in Japan since Astro Boy appeared in 1963. Subsequent titles like Speed Racer and Kimba the White Lion helped spread the fandom across the country. In America, a dedicated underground fandom grew through the 80s and 90s, with breakthrough titles like Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira making their way into the mainstream. Anime Impact explores the iconic anime movies and shows that left a mark on popular culture around the world. Film critic and longtime fan Chris Stuckmann takes readers behind the scenes of legendary titles as well as hidden gems rarely seen outside Japan. Plus anime creators, critics and enthusiasts—including Ready Player One author Ernest Cline, manga artist Mark Crilley, and YouTube star Tristan “Arkada” Gallant—share their stories, insights and insider perspectives.

Author : Jonathan Clements
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838714391
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anime written by Jonathan Clements and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive history of Japanese animation draws on Japanese primary sources and testimony from industry professionals to explore the production and reception of anime, from its origins in Japanese cartoons of the 1920s and 30s to the international successes of companies such as Studio Ghibli and Nintendo, films such as Spirited Away and video game characters such as Pokémon.