Essays about: "Spirited Away"

Found 5 essays containing the words Spirited Away.

  1. 1. Spirits, Bath Houses & Music : A Qualitative Textual Analysis of the Music & Characters in Spirited Away

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för medier och journalistik (MJ)

    Author : Anna Johansson; Malin Wollin Persson; [2022]
    Keywords : Film Music; Characters; Spirited Away; Textual analysis; Multimodality; Neoformalism;

    Abstract : This thesis delves into film music and how it can be used to shape and influence the viewer on different levels, as well as how the music in itself portrays a character. A qualitative textual analysis was used in order to get an answer to these questions. READ MORE

  2. 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

  3. 3. Change in Meaning in the Swedish Dub of Spirited Away : A translation study on dubbing using a pivot language

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Japanska

    Author : Erik Johansson; [2017]
    Keywords : dubbing; Japanese; translation; pivot language; Spirited Away; audiovisual translation AVT ;

    Abstract : This paper aims to study the results of dubbing from Japanese to Swedish using a pivot language. The author examines the Swedish dubbed version of the Japanese animated film Spirited Away by comparing it to the original version and finding differences in what in-formation is conveyed through the dialogue. READ MORE

  4. 4. Food, Humans and Other Kinds of Matter : A Posthumanist and Materialist Reading of the Anime Film Spirited Away

    University essay from Tema Genus; Filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Hanna Sunnerstam; [2013]
    Keywords : posthumanism; materialism; Spirited Away; Miyazaki; magic; eating; agency; transformations; monster theory;

    Abstract : My aim with this thesis is to use a combination of posthumanist and feminist materialist perspectives in analysing the anime film Spirited Away (2001). The analysis is organised as follows: the first chapter of the analysis deals with the notions of agency and magic. READ MORE

  5. 5. The right to health and right to intellectual property in the EU. Analysis of the internal and external policies.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Beata Faracik; [2002]
    Keywords : Human Rights Law and Intellectual Property Rights; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : It is very common nowadays to speak of an ''information society'' in which control of information or information based knowledge has replaced control over matter as an ultimate source of economic power. The intellectual creations protected through patents, trade marks, copyrights etc constitute often a huge part of the companies' intangible assets. READ MORE