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Product Identifiers

PublisherBloomsbury Publishing

ISBN-101838719245

ISBN-139781838719241

eBay Product ID (ePID)14050397959

Product Key Features

Number of Pages104 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameGrave of the Fireflies

Publication Year2021

SubjectAsia / Japan, Animation (See Also Film / Genres / Animated)

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPerforming Arts, History

AuthorAlex Dudok De Wit

SeriesBfi Film Classics Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight6.3 Oz

Item Length7.4 in

Item Width5.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2020-040673

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"A thoroughly interesting, enlightening read... Alex Dudok de Wit has done this challenging film a real justice." -- Skwigly, A thoroughly interesting, enlightening read... Alex Dudok de Wit has done this challenging film a real justice., Alex Dudok de Wit's impactful BFI monograph grapples with the Ghibli stunner's intended socio-political message - and whether it has been washed away by audiences' tears. Plus tense tales of missed production deadlines., "A little jewel of a book, concise, lucid, informative, moving." -- The Times "Alex Dudok de Wit provides a valuable service to Japanese animation studies by writing the first book-length analysis in English of Grave of the Fireflies. Let us hope it will pave the way for similar scholarship to follow on other anime films." -- Asia Times "For readers to now have access to this detailed, well-written and richly illustrated companion guide to the film is without doubt a boon to both future generations of moviegoers and scholars of animation - thought provoking in all the right ways." -- The Japan Society "A thoroughly interesting, enlightening read... Alex Dudok de Wit has done this challenging film a real justice." -- Skwigly "Extremely well researched... Insightful." -- Sight & Sound "Alex Dudok de Wit's impactful BFI monograph grapples with the Ghibli stunner's intended socio-political message - and whether it has been washed away by audiences' tears. Plus tense tales of missed production deadlines." -- Total Film, For readers to now have access to this detailed, well-written and richly illustrated companion guide to the film is without doubt a boon to both future generations of moviegoers and scholars of animation - thought provoking in all the right ways., Alex Dudok de Wit provides a valuable service to Japanese animation studies by writing the first book-length analysis in English of Grave of the Fireflies. Let us hope it will pave the way for similar scholarship to follow on other anime films.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal791.4372

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments and Author's Note Introduction: Japanese Suffering, Japanese Guilt The Production: A Monster and a Grave The Film: The Lovers' Journey The Legacy: A Rethinking of Animation Notes Credits

SynopsisOn its release in 1988, Grave of the Fireflies riveted audiences with its uncompromising drama. Directed by Isao Takahata at Studio Ghibli and based on an autobiographical story by Akiyuki Nosaka, the story of two Japanese children struggling to survive in the dying days of the Second World War unfolds with a gritty realism unprecedented in animation. Grave of the Fireflies has since been hailed as a classic of both anime and war cinema. In 2018, USA Today ranked it the greatest animated film of all time. Yet Ghibli's sombre masterpiece remains little analysed outside Japan, even as its meaning is fiercely contested - Takahata himself lamented that few had grasped his message. In the first book-length study of the film in English, Alex Dudok de Wit explores its themes, visual devices and groundbreaking use of animation, as well as the political context in which it was made. Drawing on untranslated accounts by the film's crew, he also describes its troubled production, which almost spelt disaster for Takahata and his studio., Grave of the Fireflies (1988) is a Studio Ghibli masterpiece. In this book, author Alex Dudo de Wit analyses the film's pioneering use of animation and the nuanced treatment of its subject that earned it 'classic' status.

LC Classification NumberPN1997.H711225D83