Book review. Rayna Denison (ed.), Princess Mononoke: Understanding Studio Ghibli’s Monster Princess Nichola Dobson, Norman McLaren: Between the Frames Raz Greenberg, Hayao Miyazaki: Exploring the Early Work of Japan’s Greatest Animator Susan Smith, Noel Brown and Sam Summers (eds), Toy Story: How Pixar Reinvented the Animated Feature
Book review. Rayna Denison (ed.), Princess Mononoke: Understanding Studio Ghibli’s Monster Princess Nichola Dobson, Norman McLaren: Between the Frames Raz Greenberg, Hayao Miyazaki: Exploring the Early Work of Japan’s Greatest Animator Susan Smith, Noel Brown and Sam Summers (eds), Toy Story: How Pixar Reinvented the Animated Feature
Animation scholarship commonly starts with the truism that this subject has been neglected and trivialized within film and media studies. Historically this was undoubtedly accurate, but animation studies has in recent years been recognized as one of the most vital and exciting areas of moving-image research and theorization. The launch of the ‘Animation: Key Films/Filmmakers’ series from Bloomsbury, edited by Chris Pallant (alongside a comparable forthcoming series from Palgrave Macmillan edited by Caroline Ruddell and Paul Ward) signals animation’s new prominence, but also raises important questions about the direction of future research. This review will consider the series as a whole, paying particular attention to Rayna Denison’s edited collection on the celebrated Studio Ghibli film Mononokehime/Princess Mononoke (1997), which exemplifies the strengths of the four volumes published so far.
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Cook, Malcolm
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Cook, Malcolm
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Cook, Malcolm
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Book review. Rayna Denison (ed.), Princess Mononoke: Understanding Studio Ghibli’s Monster Princess Nichola Dobson, Norman McLaren: Between the Frames Raz Greenberg, Hayao Miyazaki: Exploring the Early Work of Japan’s Greatest Animator Susan Smith, Noel Brown and Sam Summers (eds), Toy Story: How Pixar Reinvented the Animated Feature.
Screen, 60 (2), .
(doi:10.1093/screen/hjz013).
Abstract
Animation scholarship commonly starts with the truism that this subject has been neglected and trivialized within film and media studies. Historically this was undoubtedly accurate, but animation studies has in recent years been recognized as one of the most vital and exciting areas of moving-image research and theorization. The launch of the ‘Animation: Key Films/Filmmakers’ series from Bloomsbury, edited by Chris Pallant (alongside a comparable forthcoming series from Palgrave Macmillan edited by Caroline Ruddell and Paul Ward) signals animation’s new prominence, but also raises important questions about the direction of future research. This review will consider the series as a whole, paying particular attention to Rayna Denison’s edited collection on the celebrated Studio Ghibli film Mononokehime/Princess Mononoke (1997), which exemplifies the strengths of the four volumes published so far.
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