Postwar Princesses, Young Apprentices, and a Little Fish-Girl
Reading Subjectivities in Hayao Miyazaki’s Tales of Fantasy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19129477 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Montserrat Rifà-Valls (0000-0002-2361-9485, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 88-100 |
| Publication date | 2011-10-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Visual Arts Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0736-0770 • E-ISSN: 2151-8009 |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5406/visuartsrese.37.2.0088 |
| OpenAlex | W2090239459 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 7 |
In this article, I explore the representation of girl power in Hayao Miyazaki’s shōjo anime through feminist media studies. Located in feminist post-structuralism and media/cultural studies (Valerie Walkerdine, Mieke Bal, Elisabeth Ellsworth), I focus on the interpretation of the following films: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984), Princess Mononoke (1997), Spirited Away (2001), and Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (2008). I have organized the narrative analysis of these animated films from a gender perspective by the articulation of four key problematizations: the construction of subjectivity through Miyazaki’s heroines; “preposterous history” used to produce otherness and difference; the creative relationship between fantasy and liminality in the critique of contemporary society; and transformation, corporeity, and transitivity involved in visuality, spectatorship, and education
Art · Art history · Citation · Fantasy · Girl · Icon · Library science · Literature · Political science · The arts · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,23 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |