Postwar Princesses, Young Apprentices, and a Little Fish-Girl: Reading Subjectivities in Hayao Miyazaki’s Tales of Fantasy

Rifà-Valls, Montserrat

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“…7 Along with increasing prosperity and higher standards of living combined with the emergence of a middle class, the natural environment bore the burden of increased consumption and fast development. Rifa-Valls (2011: 96) labels Chihiro’s family as ‘bourgeois’, and greed and consumption are represented by the smell of cooked food luring Chihiro’s parents to the big (supersized?) plates of delectable dishes 8 (Kiridoshi, 2001: 318).…”

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Spirited Away: Conceptualizing a Film-Based Case Study through Comparative Narratives of Japanese Ecological and Environmental Discourses

Lim

2013

Animation

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This article discusses interpretations of environmental themes in the film Spirited Away (2011) directed by Miyazaki Hayao, including views that do not agree with any environment-related reading of the film's contents. In analyzing this diversity of views obtained through fieldwork and secondary sources, the discussions involve interpretations of the characters and symbolisms related to the physical settings found in the animated feature. This includes: correlations with the Japanese economic fast-growth period in the Showa period from the 1960s onwards; contrasts between characters that are representations of pollution versus traditional symbols of nature; the inter-related ideas of consumption and waste; the delicate co-existence between nature and humans; traditional conceptions of nature; spirituality and interpretations of the environment; human-nature interactions; ideas about state and non-state stakeholders in Japanese society; the impact of economic production; changes in community bonds with development, etc. The methodology is based on textual analysis and interpretive work of scholarly arguments about ideas related to the environment in Japan. A second methodology is based on oral interviews with instructors and scholarly experts within the intellectual community who have experience in teaching or writing materials related to this topical matter. The concluding section discusses reception of the film and the way audiences cognitively react to and interact with the film's contents to arrive at their own understanding (or rejection) of its environmental themes.

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Spirited Away: Conceptualizing a Film-Based Case Study through Comparative Narratives of Japanese Ecological and Environmental Discourses

Lim

2013

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“…One of them is Noviana's research which tried to discover the Japanese people's view of the sea as described in this anime through semiotic meanings [3]. Other research belongs to Rifà-Valls, who explored the representation of girl power in Miyazaki's shōjo anime or anime for girls, including this anime, through feminist media studies [8].…”

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Nature vs. Culture in Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea

Noviana

2022

E3S Web Conf.

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The issue of environment/nature and women is often discussed because nature and women are still often marginalized in various sectors of life in almost every nation. Therefore, this article raises the environmental and gender issues theme in Hayao Miyazaki’s anime Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea. This article results from literature research using a qualitative paradigm with feminist media studies and gender perspective design. This study aims to describe the depiction of women from the contemporary Japanese culture’s perspective concerning nature as visualized in this anime. The analysis found two things, namely (1) nature/women as modes of production and reproduction, and (2) nature/women are independent and empowered. In conclusion, this anime’s female characters are depicted as independent and empowered, although these characters are occasionally shown as women generally stereotyped, which shows humane. The relationship between the leading female and male characters in this anime symbolizes the binary opposition pairs of nature (female) vs. culture (male). In the real world, nature is considered inferior to culture and can be exploited at will. However, this exploit does not occur in this anime, nor does the domination of men over women. Maybe Miyazaki wanted to show that nature is not subordinate to culture, as women are not subordinates to men. Therefore, they can coexist harmoniously in this big world.

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Miyazaki’s monstrous mother: a study of Yubaba in Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away

Papastavros

2021

Feminist Media Studies

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Postwar Princesses, Young Apprentices, and a Little Fish-Girl: Reading Subjectivities in Hayao Miyazaki’s Tales of Fantasy

Cited by 5 publications

References 5 publications

Spirited Away: Conceptualizing a Film-Based Case Study through Comparative Narratives of Japanese Ecological and Environmental Discourses

Spirited Away: Conceptualizing a Film-Based Case Study through Comparative Narratives of Japanese Ecological and Environmental Discourses

Nature vs. Culture in Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea

Miyazaki’s monstrous mother: a study of Yubaba in Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away

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