Thursday 20 October 2016


Source details – Use Harvard referencing, or equivalent for moving image sources
(include page numbers etc)
 
Primary or Secondary?
Summary of its content in about 5 lines – key points in your own words (you could copy and paste original for the blog)
How you hope to use it – relevance to your investigation?
Use or reject?
You may fill this in later.
Gatti, T. (2014) Animating principle: The wind rises and the genius of Miyazaki. Available at: http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2014/05/animating-principle-wind-rises-and-genius-miyazaki (Accessed: 6 October 2016).
Secondary
 This article talks about a variety of Studio Ghilbi films, though it doesn’t focus much on Princess Mononoke, it does reference it a few times and comments on Princess Mononoke female protagonist’s strength and appearance as well as comparing her to Disney's Brave female protagonists.  
 
"strong female characters who are not tied in to fairy-tale narratives"
 
“Appears on the poster not in an hourglass dress but with a knife in her hand and blood staining her mouth.”
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 I'm considering comparing Disney and Studio Ghibli's female protagnists as a part of my research. Although it isn't directly related to my title, I think it might be useful to support Studio Ghibli's representation of femininity.
 
 
 
( Rose, S. (2011, Jul 15). Film & music: Leave the boys behind: You have to go a long way to see animations in which a girl takes the lead - to japan, in fact. steve rose looks at studio ghibli's alternative to hollywood's love of heroes. The Guardian Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/876927924?accountid=15712 )
Secondary
This article comments on the lack of female roles in Pixar and Disney. Also, it talks about how the female protagonists are represented and there female qualities
 
 
 
"almost all of them led by strong, intelligent, independent-minded girls"
 
 
 "They are adventurous and active, but also compassionate, communicative, pacifist and virtuous. Their "female" qualities and childish innocence are often what resolve the crisis at hand and bridge conflicting worlds"
 
 
  "Helen McCarthy, a British author who has written extensively on Miyazaki and Japanese animation. "By making the hero a girl, he took all that macho stuff out of the equation and that gave him the freedom to examine heroism. His career has been a very beautiful building of an idea that the feminine doesn't preclude the heroic."
 
 
 
 
This article makes a few good points about studio ghibli protagonists and which I may use to talk about how their feminie qualities are portrayed and how they’re strong characters still.