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Spirited Away (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Spirited Away (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Series: BFI Film Classics
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Loot Price R329
Discovery Miles 3 290
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Spirited Away, directed by the veteran anime film-maker Hayao
Miyazaki, is Japan's most successful film, and one of the
top-grossing 'foreign language' films ever released. Set in modern
Japan, the film is a wildly imaginative fantasy, at once personal
and universal. It tells the story of a listless little girl,
Chihiro, who stumbles into a magical world where gods relax in a
palatial bathhouse, where there are giant babies and hard-working
soot sprites, and where a train runs across the sea. Andrew
Osmond's insightful study describes how Miyazaki directed Spirited
Away with a degree of creative control undreamt of in most popular
cinema, using the film's delightful, freewheeling visual ideas to
explore issues ranging from personal agency and responsibility to
what Miyazaki sees as the lamentable state of modern Japan. Osmond
unpacks the film's visual language, which many Western (and some
Japanese) audiences find both beautiful and bewildering. He traces
connections between Spirited Away and Miyazaki's prior body of
work, arguing that Spirited Away uses the cartoon medium to create
a compellingly immersive drawn world. This edition includes a new
foreword by the author in which he considers the world of animated
cinema post-Spirited Away, considering its influence on films
ranging from del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth to Pixar's Inside Out.
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