Negotiating East and West When Representing Childhood in Miyazaki’s <i>Spirited Away</i>



Whitehurst, Katherine ORCID: 0000-0002-6678-4800
(2022) Negotiating East and West When Representing Childhood in Miyazaki’s <i>Spirited Away</i>. In: The Oxford Handbook of Children's Film. Oxford University Press, pp. 523-543. ISBN 9780190939359

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Abstract

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This chapter explores how the figure of the child gives insight into the construction of the Japanese nation and culture in Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001). The chapter outlines how Eastern and Western ideologies intersect in Spirited Away and argues that as the child navigates varied cultural expectations to seek a resolution, the child becomes the embodiment of utopic social change within an imagined Japan. The chapter demonstrates how the child in Spirited Away serves as a site to question past ideals of the nation, to resist neoliberal greed, and to project a hopeful future that sees Japan re-craft the interplay between Japanese collectivist values and Western individualism in the wake of neoliberalism.</jats:p>

Item Type: Book Section
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 13 May 2020 10:36
Last Modified: 23 Mar 2024 08:47
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190939359.013.20
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3086241