Rediscovered Classics of Japanese Animation: The Adaptation of Children's Novels Into the World Masterpiece Theater Series by Oltolini, Maria Chiara

Rediscovered Classics of Japanese Animation: The Adaptation of Children's Novels Into the World Masterpiece Theater Series

Rediscovered Classics of Japanese Animation is the first academic work to examine World Masterpiece Theater (Sekai Meisaku...
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Author: Maria Chiara Oltolini
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Rediscovered Classics of Japanese Animation: The Adaptation of Children's Novels Into the World Masterpiece Theater Series by Oltolini, Maria Chiara

Rediscovered Classics of Japanese Animation: The Adaptation of Children's Novels Into the World Masterpiece Theater Series

¥17,967

Rediscovered Classics of Japanese Animation: The Adaptation of Children's Novels Into the World Masterpiece Theater Series

¥17,967
Author: Maria Chiara Oltolini
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Rediscovered Classics of Japanese Animation is the first academic work to examine World Masterpiece Theater (Sekai Meisaku Gekijô, 1969-2009), which popularized the practice of adapting foreign children's books into long-running animated series and laid the groundwork for powerhouses like Studio Ghibli.

World Masterpiece Theater
(Sekai Meisaku Gekijô, 1969-2009) is a TV staple created by the Japanese studio Nippon Animation, which popularized the practice of adapting foreign children's books into long-running animated series. Once generally dismissed by critics, the series is now frequently investigated as a key early work of legendary animators Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki. In the first book-length examination of the series, Maria Chiara Oltolini analyzes cultural significance of World Masterpiece Theater, and the ways in which the series pioneered the importance of children's fiction for Japanese animation studios and laid the groundwork for powerhouses like Studio Ghibli.

Adapting a novel for animation also means decoding (and re-coding) socio-cultural patterns embedded in a narrative. World Masterpiece Theater stands as a unique example of this linguistic, medial, and cultural hybridisation. Popular children's classics such as Little Women, Peter Pan, and Anne of Green Gables became the starting point of a full-fledged negotiation process in which Japanese animators retold a whole range of narratives that have one basic formula in common: archetypal stories with an educational purpose. In particular, the series played a role in shaping the pop culture image of a young girl (shôjo).

Examining the series through the lens of animation studies as well as adaptation studies, Oltolini sheds new light on this long-neglected staple of Japanese animation history.

Author: Maria Chiara Oltolini
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 02/22/2024
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781501389900

About the Author
Maria Chiara Oltolini has a BA, MA, and PhD from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan, Italy, where she has been working as a Teaching Assistant in Semiotics and History and Language of International Cinema for several years. In 2017, she was a visiting scholar at Cardiff University, UK as part of her PhD program. Her research interests include adaptation as a form of intermedia and intercultural expression, focusing on the relationships between Japanese animation and Children's literature.

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