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Issue 45: Studio Ghibli

March 2017

Towards a True Children’s Cinema: on My Neighbor Totoro

Lauren Wilford·
Issue 45: Studio Ghibli
My Neighbor Totoro is a children’s film for the world as it is, and for the world as it should be.
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The Things We Never Forget, Even When We Can’t Remember: Fear and Bravery in Spirited Away

Ethan Warren·
Issue 45: Studio Ghibli
In Miyazaki's Spirited Away, I see a film that I can show my daughter to find herself in, and a model I can only hope to embody myself.
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A Body is a Heavy Thing

Kelsey Ford·
Issue 45: Studio Ghibli
In Howl’s Moving Castle, bodily curses abound; in this world, you can be betrayed by your body as easily as you can betray it.
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We Contain Multitudes

Kelcie Mattson·
Issue 45: Studio Ghibli
At different forked roads in my 27 years, I saw Miyazaki’s women and thought, I can? And each, in her distinct way, said Yes.
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The Nuclear Resonance of Castle in the Sky

Astrid Anne Rose·
Issue 45: Studio Ghibli
In Castle in the Sky, nature is not to be negotiated with, nor reveled in. A humanity that would exploit nuclear energy is a humanity which doesn’t deserve its benefits.
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Nothing to Fear

Sarah Welch-Larson·
Issue 45: Studio Ghibli
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is not, perhaps, Miyazaki’s best movie, but it is his most earnest and original; a declaration of ideals that his later movies will refine.
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Better Living Through Minimalism: On the Soul of The Tale of the Princess Kaguya

Tim Markatos·
Issue 45: Studio Ghibli
We leave our experience with Princess Kaguya—as with all of the best Ghibli films—changed, our lives recontextualized.
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Everyone Has to Cooperate: Nationalism and Victimhood in Grave of the Fireflies

Bradley J. Dixon·
Issue 45: Studio Ghibli
Isao Takahata’s tragic and poetic Grave of the Fireflies is a warning that bullets and bombs are not the only deadly forces in wartime.
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We Can’t Rely on Men

Zosha Millman·
Issue 45: Studio Ghibli
It’s always felt like Ghibli movies understood what it meant to grow up as a girl, still unconvinced by the world that she has to fight for everything she has.
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