Book description
The story of filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki's life and work, including his significant impact on Japan and the world-"an essential work in anime scholarship." (Angelica Frey, Hyperallergic)
A thirtieth-century toxic jungle, a bathhouse for tired gods, a red-haired fish girl, and a furry woodland spirit-what do these have in common? They…
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1 author picked Miyazakiworld as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is an excellent “life in art,” or a series of chapters on the major works in a biographical context.
Napier discusses such questions as: his feelings about the fact that his family profited from the war, making fan belts for fighter planes; his feelings about his father compared to his mother; the relation of the works to his professional life—the studio, his collaborators, his periodic burn-out and work ethic.
From Eric's list on Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki.
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