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The Animé Art of Hayao Miyazaki
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGUING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Cavallaro, Dani. The animé art of Hayao Miyazaki / Dani Cavallaro. p. Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-¡3: 978-0-7864-2369-9 (softcover : 50# alkaline paper)
¡. Miyazaki, Hayao, 1941– —Criticism and interpretation. | ||
British Library cataloguing data are available
©2006 Dani Cavallaro. All rights reserved
No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Cover image: Howl’s Moving Castle (2004 Japan) © Studio Ghibli/Walt Disney Pictures (Photofest)
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McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Box 6¡¡, Je›erson, North Carolina 28640 www.mcfarlandpub.com
To Paddy, with love and gratitude
“To be a witch, to be an artist, to be a baker It’s an energy bestowed by the gods or someone, right? Though thanks to it, we do have to su›er at times.” —Ursula, Kiki’s Delivery Service
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The Ghibli Era: A Brief History of Studio Ghibli | |
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind | |
Laputa: Castle in the Sky | |
Postscript: French Connections—The Miyazaki/Moebius Exhibition | |
Appendix ¡: Ancillary Products and Media Synergy |
Appendix 2: Fans and Their Worlds |
The escalating appeal of Hayao Miyazaki’s films across the continents, matched by the record-breaking box-o‡ce performance of his most recent productions, calls for an up-to-date evaluation of his accomplishments in a directing capacity and of his con- tributions to works involving other animation practitioners attached to his company, Studio Ghibli. This book will function as an introduction for audiences as yet only marginally familiar with Miyazaki’s oeuvre, while deepening the understanding of the director’s life, thought and creative process for those who are acquainted with his movies and are eager to move beyond the propaedeutic stage. A firm believer in the wisdom of children, Miyazaki has consistently tackled grave issues without ever sanitizing or sentimentalizing their import, let alone dishing out definitive resolutions. These issues range from environmental depletion, the horrors of war, the iniquities of totalitarian regimes and people’s enslavement to commodity fetishism, to the setbacks entailed by personal development, the loss of innocence and the cultivation of the values of loyalty, gratitude, courage, self-sacrifice and love. Con- comitantly, the director is able to immerse his perceptions of human strife in a won- drous atmosphere of visual and moral grace that invariably verges upon, and frequently achieves aesthetic sublimity. At times, this sense of the sublime is conveyed by cine- matic sequences of genuinely heroical grandeur, while at others, and no less memo- rably, Miyazaki’s vision thrives on the unparalleled merit of simplicity: the most elementary plot twist, the least a›ected facial expression or gesture, and the subtlest chromatic shift may accomplish almost imperceptibly what overtly theatrical set pieces favored by Hollywood animation could barely aspire to. Drawing on a range of sources of distinctively Japanese and Western derivation, Miyazaki situates his narratives in natural and architectural contexts characterized by stunning graphic richness, textural intricacy and scrupulous attention to the minutest and most unusual details. At all times, it is impossible not to sense the director’s ardent commitment to hands-on craftsmanship even in productions that resort to digital tools and techniques. The outcome is a luxuriant swirl of cinematic poetry wherein the homely and the surreal harmoniously coalesce. The movies’ amalgamation of disparate sources is also borne out by the presence, within their tapestries, of elements typical of diverse genres, including science fiction, action adventure, romance, comedy, horror,
the fairy tale, the folktale, the epic saga, the thriller and the war story, as well as myr- iad allusions to mythology, religion and philosophy.
This book opens with a panoramic introduction to Miyazaki’s work describing his visual repertoire, pivotal themes and cinematographical style. The first two chapters situate the films in relation to two complementary contexts: the visual conventions underlying manga
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