ZeriaHayao Miyazaki began his career as a Marxist, but by the mid-90s, that all had faded away. What impact have those politics had on his works, what do his works say politically past his Marxism, and what are the themes that anime's legendary director always returns to? I'd hope that with a video this long, I'd be able to find that out.
Sources: Benjamin, Walter. “On the Concept of History.” Frankfurt School: On the Concept of History by Walter Benjamin, marxists.org/reference/archive/benjamin/1940/history.htm. Deleuze, Gilles, and Felix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. University of Minnesota Press, 1983. Foster, John Bellamy. Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature. Braille Jymico Inc., 2012. Horkheimer, Max, and Theodor W. Adorno. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments. Stanford Univ. Press. Jameson, Fredric. The Political Unconscious. Cornell University Press, 1981. Karatani Kōjin. Origins of Modern Japanese Literature. Translated by Brett De Bary, Duke University Press, 1998. LaMarre, Thomas. The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation. Univ. of Minnesota Press. Löwy, Michael. Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamins "On the Concept of History". Verso, 2016. Miyazaki, Hayao. Starting Point: 1979-1996. VIZ Media, 2014. Miyazaki, Hayao. Turning Point: 1997-2008. VIZ Media, 2014. Napier, Susan. Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art. Yale University Press, 2018. Rocca, A. J. “Miyazaki's Haunted Utopia: The Ghost of Modernity in 'Kiki's Delivery Service'.” PopMatters, PopMatters, 24 Feb. 2018, popmatters.com/miyazakis-haunted-utopia-ghost-modernity-kikis-delivery-service-2495410503.html. Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. The Mushroom at the End of the World: on the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press, 2017. Wegner, Phillip E. “An Unfinished Project That Was Also a Missed Opportunity: Utopia and Alternate History in Hayao Miyazakis My Neighbor Totoro.” http://imagetext.english.ufl.edu/archives/v5_2/wegner/?print. “Magical Maturity and Motherly Modernity - Nausicaäst #05 - Kiki's Delivery Service.” Youtube, 12 Nov. 2019, youtube.com/watch?v=5IlQYr6sYhU.
Miyazakis Marxism - The Politics of Animes Legendary DirectorZeria2019-12-31 | Hayao Miyazaki began his career as a Marxist, but by the mid-90s, that all had faded away. What impact have those politics had on his works, what do his works say politically past his Marxism, and what are the themes that anime's legendary director always returns to? I'd hope that with a video this long, I'd be able to find that out.
Sources: Benjamin, Walter. “On the Concept of History.” Frankfurt School: On the Concept of History by Walter Benjamin, marxists.org/reference/archive/benjamin/1940/history.htm. Deleuze, Gilles, and Felix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. University of Minnesota Press, 1983. Foster, John Bellamy. Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature. Braille Jymico Inc., 2012. Horkheimer, Max, and Theodor W. Adorno. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments. Stanford Univ. Press. Jameson, Fredric. The Political Unconscious. Cornell University Press, 1981. Karatani Kōjin. Origins of Modern Japanese Literature. Translated by Brett De Bary, Duke University Press, 1998. LaMarre, Thomas. The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation. Univ. of Minnesota Press. Löwy, Michael. Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamins "On the Concept of History". Verso, 2016. Miyazaki, Hayao. Starting Point: 1979-1996. VIZ Media, 2014. Miyazaki, Hayao. Turning Point: 1997-2008. VIZ Media, 2014. Napier, Susan. Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art. Yale University Press, 2018. Rocca, A. J. “Miyazaki's Haunted Utopia: The Ghost of Modernity in 'Kiki's Delivery Service'.” PopMatters, PopMatters, 24 Feb. 2018, popmatters.com/miyazakis-haunted-utopia-ghost-modernity-kikis-delivery-service-2495410503.html. Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. The Mushroom at the End of the World: on the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press, 2017. Wegner, Phillip E. “An Unfinished Project That Was Also a Missed Opportunity: Utopia and Alternate History in Hayao Miyazakis My Neighbor Totoro.” http://imagetext.english.ufl.edu/archives/v5_2/wegner/?print. “Magical Maturity and Motherly Modernity - Nausicaäst #05 - Kiki's Delivery Service.” Youtube, 12 Nov. 2019, youtube.com/watch?v=5IlQYr6sYhU.
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