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Anime's identity : performativity and form beyond Japan
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ISBN: 9781517911782 1517911788 151791177X 9781517911775 Year: 2021 Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,


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(Re)Creating Language Identities in Animated Films
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ISBN: 9783030566371 9783030566388 3030566382 3030566374 Year: 2021 Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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This book investigates how language identities are created and represented in animated films, and how they are tackled by dubbing professionals in Italy. The author describes how language variation and varieties contribute to building the language identities of characters in several popular Anglo-American animated films, and analyses how these linguistic characterisations are transposed into Italian. Drawing on a corpus of 30 films produced by Disney, Pixar, Dreamworks, 20th Century Fox and Sony, the book examines linguistic norms, conventions and stereotypes and highlights issues of creativity in translation. It is the first book in English entirely devoted to the translation of animated feature films, and it will be of interest to students and scholars of translation, linguistic variation, film and media. Vincenza Minutella is a researcher and Aggregate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and Modern Cultures at the University of Turin, Italy. .


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Grave of the fireflies
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ISBN: 9781838719241 1838719245 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York Bloomsbury on behalf of the British Film Institute

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"Grave of the Fireflies (1988) is a Studio Ghibli masterpiece. Isao Takahata's portrait of two doomed orphans struggling under the firebombing of Japan is a deeply moving drama, which deftly weaves an intimate tragedy into the intricate moral tapestry of World War Two. The film's pioneering use of animation and nuanced treatment of its subject has earned it 'classic' status. Drawing on accounts by Ghibli staff members and untranslated Japanese sources, Alex Dudok de Wit describes the genesis of Grave of the Fireflies and profiles the key players involved in its making - including animation directors, background artists, colourists, voice actors and producers. He explains the influence of Akiyuki Nosaka's source novella and provides close readings of key scenes, spotlighting the film's sophisticated development of motifs, subtle evocation of ancient Japanese culture, and deployment of animation's language to tell a story that would have been ill-suited to live action. While Grave of the Fireflies has been widely interpreted as a anti-war film, Dudok de Wit argues that Takahata was more concerned about creating a complex portrayal of responsibility within Japanese society. His message to modern audiences was: communitarian values are still under pressure, even in peacetime, and must be upheld"--


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War comics : a postcolonial perspective
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ISBN: 9781003081364 1003081363 9781000163438 1000163431 9781000163353 9781000162291 9781000163391 1000163393 1000163350 9780367533151 0367533154 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York Routledge

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This book focuses on non-fictional, visual narratives (including comics; graphic narratives; animated documentaries and online, interactive documentaries) that attempt to represent violent experiences, primarily in the Levant. In doing so it explores, from a philosophical perspective, the problem of representing trauma when language seems inadequate to describe our experiences and how the visual narrative form may help us with this. The book uses the concept of the ineffable to expand the notion of representation beyond the confines of a western, individualist notion of trauma as event based. In so doing, it engages a postcolonial perspective of trauma, which treats violence as ongoing and connected to several incidents of violence across time and space. This book demonstrates how the formal qualities of visual, non-fiction may help close the gap between representation and experience through the process of ‘dark’ writing.


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Inspiring Walt Disney : the animation of french decorative arts
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ISBN: 9781588397416 1588397416 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art,

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"Pink castles, talking sofas, and a prince transformed into a teapot: what sounds like fantasies from Walt Disney's pioneering animations could first be found in the colorful salons of Rococo Paris. The films produced by Disney Animation Studios represent almost a century of creativity and are deeply rooted in European storytelling and visual traditions. Exploring Walt Disney's fascination with European art and examining the novel use of French motifs in Disney films and theme parks, this publication features 40 works of eighteenth-century European design - from tapestries and furniture to Boulle clocks and Sevres porcelain alongside 150 film stills, drawings, and other works on paper from the Walt Disney Animation Studio Library and Walt Disney Archives. The text connects these seemingly disparate art forms through the artists' shared dedication to craftsmanship while also highlighting references to European art in Disney films, including nods to Gothic Revival architecture in Cinderella (1950); bejeweled, medieval manuscripts in Sleeping Beauty (1959); and Rococo-inspired furnishings and objects brought to life in Beauty and the Beast (1991). This book bridges fact and fantasy by drawing remarkable new parallels between Disney's magical creations and their artistic models."--

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