Joe Hisaishi's Soundtrack for My Neighbor Totoro
«Many fans of Japanese anime love their musical soundtracks, but few scholars have studied their appeal. Kunio Hara explains in clear, soulful language how Joe Hisaishi and Miyazaki Hayao collaborated to create the sonic environment for the beloved My Neighbor Totoro, balancing a scholars’ sophisticated musical analysis and a fan’s emotional engagement.»
E. Taylor Atkins, Distinguished Teaching Professor and Assistant Chair of History, Northern Illinois
My Neighbor Totoro is a long-standing international icon of Japanese pop culture that grew out of the partnership between the legendary animator Miyazaki Hayao and the world-renowned composer Joe Hisaishi. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Bloomsbury Academic USA
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 184
- ISBN
- 9781501345111
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
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«Many fans of Japanese anime love their musical soundtracks, but few scholars have studied their appeal. Kunio Hara explains in clear, soulful language how Joe Hisaishi and Miyazaki Hayao collaborated to create the sonic environment for the beloved My Neighbor Totoro, balancing a scholars’ sophisticated musical analysis and a fan’s emotional engagement.»
E. Taylor Atkins, Distinguished Teaching Professor and Assistant Chair of History, Northern Illinois
«Kunio Hara is one of the few music and Japanese film scholars with a truly multidisciplinary and multilingual competence. To discover the minutest details of Totoro's music through a panoply of references previously unavailable to English-speaking readers, while also enjoying endearing recollections on the special sense of nostalgia exuded by the film, is all the more satisfying.»
Marco Bellano, Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor in History of Animation, University of Padova,