Carti in categoria Filologie

The five directors of animation works included in this volume – Kon Satoshi, Hosoda Mamoru, Miyazaki Gorô, Yonebayashi Hiromasa, Shinkai Makoto – belong to the so-called shinjinrui ("new human breed") generation, the commonly accepted Japanese correspondence to the Western X generation. Born into relative affluence and unfamiliar with the hardships their parents (the baby-boomers) had experienced, they came of age mostly after the end of the Cold War, and can be divided roughly...

Takahata Isao (1935-2018) was the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, the world-famous Japanese animation enterprise since 1985. Together with Miyazaki Hayao (born 1942), Takahata Isao uniquely impacted the world of animation – Japanese and beyond –, both aesthetically and ideologically. On the pursuit of what he called “l’invention du réel dans l’animation” (“the invention of the real in animation”), Takahata Isao sought to establish the ability o...