Fans of Studio Ghibli
Anime is familiar to Japanese audiences as something made for and consumed by both children and adults, though particular animes target and attract particular age ranges. Studio Ghibli’s dedicated fans …
Course: Pictures of Youth: An Introduction to Children’s Visual Culture
Challenging the idea of Ghibli as ‘children’s films’
Here are some of the answers we came up with in response to the previous discussion. Do they match or differ from yours? The voice-over in the video chart describes …
How Studio Ghibli Films Paint a Picture of Youth
What aspects of Studio Ghibli’s films make them identifiable as ‘children’s films’? Teenage or children protagonists. These are often the narrators, whose viewpoint the stories are told from. Additionally, there …
The making of a Studio Ghibli film
Making anime the Studio Ghibli way is a painstaking process. Following the link below and exploring the blog post it takes you to will give you an insight into the …
Ghibli greats
Watch this short introduction to some Studio Ghibli favourites. One fan shares their top ten with you, and illustrates it with clips of the films. If you’re familiar with Studio …
What is Studio Ghibli?
Let Sarah Olive introduce you to Studio Ghibli. Studio Ghibli Don’t just take our word on Studio Ghibli. They’re regularly written about in the film sections of newspapers internationally as …
What makes a great children’s film?
What makes a really successful children’s film? And who gets to decide? What the professionals think In this newspaper article from The Telegraph, the journalist SF Said asks the artistic …
What do we mean, when we say ‘children’s film’?
The term ‘children’s film’ doesn’t mean the same thing to everyone who uses it. Watch Sarah Olive explain some of the variations in meaning. Not only does ‘children’s film’ not …
Fan-Made comics
Young comics fans, and especially fans of manga and anime – also known as otaku – are a creative, ever-changing community. In recent years, there has been increasing interest by …
Webcomics, memes, and new uses of comic art
Few art forms have blossomed and transformed as energetically, in contact with the Internet, as comics. Webcomics “Webcomics are comics that are firstly and primarily posted on an online site, …
Novels in cartoons and hybrid novels
What do you think of these emerging forms of literature? Can you think of similarly hybrid texts for an adult audience?
Should we burn Tintin?
The Tintin series is, arguably, at once one of the most beloved and one of the most criticised comic book series of all time. Read these two articles on instances …
American comics and the spectre of imperialism
Had you ever thought of superhero comics or Disney comics from that perspective? How well-founded are those accusations, do you think? Can you think of other types of children’s media …
Using wordless comics with children and young people
University of Glasgow scholar Evelyn Arizpe and her research team have been at the forefront of using wordless picturebooks and wordless comics to elicit creative responses from children and young …
Don’t say a word!… The case of wordless comics
Wordless comics are a minority, but they do exist, and you know at least one, I’m sure… The Snowman, by Raymond Briggs, remember? Here is what scholar Barbara Postema says …
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Pictures of Youth: An Introduction to Children’s Visual Culture
