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Availability:In StockContributor:Andrew OsmondSeries:BFI Film ClassicsPublish date:2020-05-28Pages:128
Language:EnglishPublisher:British Film InstituteISBN-13:9781838719524ISBN-10:1838719520UPC:9781838719524Book Category:Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Film, AnimationBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:7.40 x 5.40 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SC2X9511BG

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:British Film InstituteISBN-13:9781838719524ISBN-10:1838719520UPC:9781838719524Book Category:Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Film, AnimationBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:7.40 x 5.40 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SC2X9511BG
Andrew Osmond is a journalist and critic based in Berkshire, UK. He is the author of Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist (2009); 100 Animated Feature Films (BFI Publishing, 2010) and Ghost in the Shell (2017).
Publisher: British Film Institute

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Andrew Osmond

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