{"product_id":"spirited-away-by-andrew-osmond-9781838719524","title":"Spirited Away","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSpirited Away\u003c\/em\u003e, directed by the veteran anime film-maker Hayao Miyazaki, is Japan's most successful film, and one of the top-grossing 'foreign language' films ever released. Set in modern Japan, the film is a wildly imaginative fantasy, at once personal and universal. It tells the story of a listless little girl, Chihiro, who stumbles into a magical world where gods relax in a palatial bathhouse, where there are giant babies and hard-working soot sprites, and where a train runs across the sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAndrew Osmond's insightful study describes how Miyazaki directed \u003cem\u003eSpirited Away\u003c\/em\u003e with a degree of creative control undreamt of in most popular cinema, using the film's delightful, freewheeling visual ideas to explore issues ranging from personal agency and responsibility to what Miyazaki sees as the lamentable state of modern Japan. Osmond unpacks the film's visual language, which many Western (and some Japanese) audiences find both beautiful and bewildering. He traces connections between \u003cem\u003eSpirited Away\u003c\/em\u003e and Miyazaki's prior body of work, arguing that \u003cem\u003eSpirited Away\u003c\/em\u003e uses the cartoon medium to create a compellingly immersive drawn world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition includes a new foreword by the author in which he considers the world of animated cinema post-\u003cem\u003eSpirited Away\u003c\/em\u003e, considering its influence on films ranging from del Toro's \u003cem\u003ePan's Labyrinth\u003c\/em\u003e to Pixar's \u003cem\u003eInside Out\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47432642658540,"sku":"9781838719524","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781838719524.jpg?v=1774555178","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/spirited-away-by-andrew-osmond-9781838719524","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}