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SPIRITED AWAY - ANDREW OSMOND KARTONIERT (TB)

Spirited Away   directed by the veteran anime film-maker Hayao Miyazaki  is Japan's most
successful film  and one of the top-grossing 'foreign language' films ever released. Set in
modern Japan  the film is a wildly imaginative fantasy  at once personal and universal. It
tells the story of a listless little girl  Chihiro  who stumbles into a magical world where
gods relax in a palatial bathhouse  where there are giant babies and hard-working soot sprites
and where a train runs across the sea.   Andrew Osmond's insightful study describes how
Miyazaki directed Spirited Away with a degree of creative control undreamt of in most popular
cinema  using the film's delightful  freewheeling visual ideas to explore issues ranging from
personal agency and responsibility to what Miyazaki sees as the lamentable state of modern
Japan. Osmond unpacks the film's visual language  which many Western (and some Japanese)
audiences find both beautiful and bewildering. He traces connections between Spirited Away and
Miyazaki's prior body of work  arguing that Spirited Away uses the cartoon medium to create a
compellingly immersive drawn world. This edition includes a new foreword by the author in which
he considers the world of animated cinema post- Spirited Away   considering its influence on
films ranging from del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth to Pixar's Inside Out .

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