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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …