Investigating How The Japanese Animation Powerhouse Reimagines Stories
Editors: Dominic J. Nardi & Keli Fancher
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:
– 979-8-765-1-27063 (hardcover)
– 979-8-765-1-27087 (e-book, pdf)
– 979-8-765-1-27094 (e-book, epub/mobi)
Purchase:
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Online Access:
doi.org/10.5040/9798765127070
Contents
Nardi, Dominic J., & Fancher, Keli. Introduction: Studio Ghibli animation as (re)creative adaptations (pp. 1-16)
Faithfulness and Fidelity
- Seeger, River. Apocalyptic beauty: Future Boy Conan and how Hayao Miyazaki adapts apocalypse (pp. 19-33).
- Yonemura, Miyuki. Hayao Miyazaki as a magician of adaptation in Kiki’s Delivery Service (pp. 34-54).
- McLain, Adam. The balance of creation and ruin: A constituent reading of Tales From Earthsea (pp. 55-78).
Translating Stories Across Cultures
- Fancher, Keli. Japan’s Swiss Heimat: How Heidi, Girl of the Alps satisfies Japanese homesickness (pp. 81-103.
- Carland-Echavarria, Patrick. My bosom friend Diana: Female friendship and school life in Red-Haired Anne (pp. 104-118).
- Dridi, Yosr. From postmodern fairy tale to anti-modern shōjo: Adapting Howl’s Moving Castle (pp. 119-139).
- Crombie, Zoe. Western stories, Japanese structures: Narratological reinterpretations of Howl’s Moving Castle and Ponyo (pp. 140-158).
From Manga to Anime
- Forni, Dalila. Postapocalypse and solarpunk in Hayao Miyazaki’s two versions of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (pp. 161-182).
- Hsieh, Hsin. Adapting nostalgia in Only Yesterday and My Neighbors the Yamadas (pp. 183-202).
Boundaries and Genres
- Milthorpe, Brian. Rediscovering Laputa: Literary form and technoscience in Castle in the Sky and Gulliver’s Travels (pp. 205-230).
- Belopavlovich, Kendall. True stories, theater tropes, and Hotaru mythologies: Adaptation reconsidered in Grave of the Fireflies (pp. 231-250).
- Wheeler, Colin. A kettle of fish on a warming planet: Exploring liminality in Ponyo and “The Little Mermaid” (pp. 251-278).