Susan Napier is the Goldthwaite Professor of Rhetoric and Japanese Studies at Tufts University. She is the author of Anime from Akira to “Howl’s Moving Castle”: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation, among other books.
“Packed with interesting details about the filmmaker’s life,
interests, and inspirations.”—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post
“The celebrated Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki came out
of retirement last year, making this compact study of his life and
work especially timely.”—John McMurtrie, San Francisco Chronicle
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“Susan Napier eloquently defines Miyazaki as an auteur who creates
immersive animated realms that vary from film to film but are
joined by a consistent (albeit evolving) worldview and tropes . . .
An essential work in anime scholarship.”—Angelica Frey,
Hyperallergic
“Enjoyable and enlightening book.” — Claire Kohda Hazelton, Times
Literary Supplement
“A refreshing, intimate, highly original look at Miyazaki Hayao’s
oeuvre, including early anime features, mainstream hits and the
many-volumed manga, Nausicaa. Miyazaki is placed firmly on the
world stage, including both local roots and global impact.”—Rachael
Hutchinson, University of Delaware
"An insightful, fascinating, and revealing study of Miyazaki and
his worlds by one of the world’s foremost experts in Japanese
animated films, Miyazakiworld is a true achievement."—Karen
Thornber, Harvard University
"Providing expert guidance to the radically inventive mysteries of
Hayao Miyazaki’s films, Susan Napier shows exactly how Japan’s
master of animation taps into the wonders of the natural world yet
also faces down our demons, exploring trauma, crisis, and the
willful destruction of our made world. Like his literary and
cinematic forebears, Miyazaki creates a form of wonderlore that
reveals the power of art to animate, not just his characters and
landscapes, but also his audiences."—Maria Tatar, author of The
Annotated Brothers Grimm
"In Miyazakiworld, Susan Napier demonstrates her gift for narrative
and passion for enchantment in exploring the spacetime between the
fantasy worlds of Hayao Miyazaki’s creation and the grittier worlds
that created him."—Jennifer Robertson, author of Robo Sapiens
Japanicus
“This wonderful, lively book introduces the whole life and career
of Miyazaki via commentary on the narratives and themes within his
films, and some manga, and his personal life.”—Sharon Kinsella, The
University of Manchester
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