This article examines the first installment in Nick Park’s Wallace & Gromit series A Grand Day Out (1989) through the lenses of the oneiric and the Dionysian. While scholarship on Aardman Animations tends to emphasize its stop-motion materiality and British eccentricity, less attention has…
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The Fleeting Nature of Joy in Isao Takahata’s The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013)
by Christian Wilken • September 24, 2024 • 0 Comments
Isao Takahata’s The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013) stands as the final masterpiece of one of Studio Ghibli’s founding fathers. Expanding upon the historic Japanese fairy tale Taketori Monogatari, it offers a poignant reflection on the impermanence of joy…