4. Chie the Brat in Anime History

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introducing Takahata Isao 1
4. 1. Doing the Time Warp: Magical Realism and Community Dynamics in the Early Films of a Twentieth-Century Japanese Socialist 25
5. 2. A Consecrated Biography: Takahata Isao, from Anonymity to “Respectable Filmmaker” 47
6. 3. Heidi, a Girl of the Alps: Bildungsroman and World Masterpiece Theater 71
7. 4. Chie the Brat in Anime History 88
8. 5. Nature, Environmentalism, and Documentary Realism in The Story of Yanagawa’s Canals 103
9. 6. The Author’s Prerogative: Arguments Against Grave of the Fireflies Functioning as an Anti-War Text 127
10. 7. Only Yesterday, Nostalgia, and the Ozu-esque 147
11. 8. Animative Justice: Animism and the Problem of Indigeneity in Pom Poko 175
12. 9. Breaking the Rules Through the Changing Thickness of the Line: My Neighbors the Yamadas 202
13. 10. An Auteur’s Final Fantasy: Princess Kaguya and the Interrogation of the Real 230
14. Contributors 247
15. Index 251