Archive Episode - My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988)
My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988).
The Fantasy/Animation podcast takes listeners on a journey through the intersection between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation. Available via Apple Podcasts, Spotify and many of your favourite podcast hosting platforms!
Another trip through the Fantasy/Animation archive lands on this very early episode from February 2019 that focuses on Studio Ghibli’s My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988). Chris and Alex take the opportunity to reminisce about when fantasy and animation first met, and whether Alex has ‘clicked’ with the film since the original episode was recorded. With My Neighbor Totoro initially released as part of a double-bill with Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata, 1988) - a film that Chris and Alex have also covered on the podcast - this is a chance for listeners to enjoy their own Fantasy/Animation double-header!
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Suggested Readings
Kirkland, Ewan. 2017. Children's Media and Modernity Film, Television and Digital Games. Oxford: Peter Lang.
Lacan, Jacques. 1978. The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis. New York: W. W. Norton & Co.
Napier, Susan. 2005. “The Problem of Existence in Japanese Animation.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 149, no. 1, 72–79.
Todorov, Tzvetan. 1973. The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre, trans. by Richard Howard. Cleveland: Case Western Reserve University Press.