Miyazakiworld: a life in art

Prologue: In search of Miyazakiworld

Hametsu

Constructing an animator

The joy of movement

Ups and downs : Castle of Cagliostro

Nausicaä and "the feminine principle"

Orphans of the sky : Laputa: Castle in the Sky

Umbrellas in the haunted forest : transcending national and personal trauma in My Neighbor Totoro

The witch and the city : time, space, and gender in Kiki's Delivery Service

Porco Rosso lands in Casablanca

From messiah to shaman : the Nausicaä manga seeks light in the darkness

The faces of others : boundary crossing in Princess Mononoke

The intimate apocalypse of Spirited Away

The castle, the curse, and the collectivity : Howl's Moving Castle

Rich and strange : the apocalypse of the innocents in Ponyo

"A terrible wind" : The Wind Rises

Conclusion.

Prologue: In search of Miyazakiworld

Hametsu

Constructing an animator

The joy of movement

Ups and downs : Castle of Cagliostro

Nausicaä and "the feminine principle"

Orphans of the sky : Castle in the Sky

Umbrellas in the haunted forest : transcending national and personal trauma in My Neighbor Totoro

The witch and the city : time, space, and gender in Kiki's Delivery Service

Porco Rosso lands in Casablanca

From messiah to shaman : the Nausicaä manga seeks light in the darkness

The faces of others : boundary crossing in Princess Mononoke

The intimate apocalypse of Spirited Away

The castle, the curse, and the collectivity : Howl's Moving Castle

Rich and strange : the apocalypse of the innocents in Ponyo

"A terrible wind" : The Wind Rises

Conclusion.