Essays about: "Hayao Miyazaki"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words Hayao Miyazaki.

  1. 1. Naturalizing Women and Feminizing Nature : A Marxist Ecofeminist Reading of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Abbey Austin Whitley; [2022]
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    Abstract : This thesis investigates how women and the natural world are naturalized and feminized within the 1984 film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki. I construct this analysis through a Marxist Ecofeminist framework that highlights the role of reproductive labor in the subordination of both women and nature. READ MORE

  3. 2. Looking at Gender Stereotypes in Language Behaviour: Questions, Compliments, and Interruptions in the Films of Hayao Miyazaki

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för Asien- och Mellanösternstudier (IAM)

    Author : Arina Meshcheryakova; [2022]
    Keywords : Hayao Miyazaki; language behaviour; gender norms; Japan; anime; stereotypes; Hayao Miyazaki; språkligt beteende; könsnormer; Japan; anime; stereotyper; 宮崎駿、言語行動、ジェンダーのステレオタイプ、日本、アニメ、ステレオタイプ;

    Abstract : The films of Hayao Miyazaki have been praised world-wide for their strong female characters and their wide range of gender representation. While most of previous research has been focusing on narrative, in particular, characters’ social behaviour therein, or their visual appearance, this thesis aims to understand whether these praised films do challenge the usual gender stereotypes associated with contemporary Japanese society and popular fiction also linguistically. READ MORE

  4. 3. A Voice Against War : Pacifism in the animated films of Miyazaki Hayao

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för Asien-, Mellanöstern- och Turkietstudier

    Author : Einar Schipperges Tjus; [2018]
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  5. 4. Transnational Voices or Self-serving Activists?: The Portrayal and Legitimation of Public Intellectuals in Japanese Newspapers Author:

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Milja Virtanen; [2016]
    Keywords : Public intellectuals; Discourse; Japanese newspapers; Legitimacy; Ideology; Japan; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The primary concern of this study was to analyze how the Japanese print media portray modern-day public intellectuals, and subsequently treat them as legitimate or illegitimate. Furthermore, I examined the underlying factors that affect this portrayal. READ MORE

  6. 5. Maxime Miranda in Minimis: Reimagining Swarm Consciousness and Planetary Responsibility

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Denise Ask Nunes; [2015]
    Keywords : Swarm Consciousness; insects; science-fiction; Jacques Derrida; umwelt; Jakob von Uexküll; Mitchell Tomashow; eco-criticism; planetary responsibility; Robert A. Heinlein; David Malouf; Orson Scott Card; Hayao Miyazaki;

    Abstract : This essay explores Swarm Consciousness in relation to the novels Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, Remembering Babylon by David Malouf, and the manga Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki. Through these novels, Swarm Consciousness can be reimagined in order to challenge the ways insects have previously been considered in literature. READ MORE