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Free Zoom Webinar on Ghibli on January 27
posted on by Andrew Osmond
On Thursday January 27, there will be a free Zoom webinar discussion entitled "The Women of Ghibli: Female Leading & Creating Porco Rosso." The event will run from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. (GMT). Registrations for the event can be made here.
The webinar will be given Dr Rayna Denison, Professor in Film and Digital Arts at the University of Bristol, who is working on a project about Studio Ghibli's industrial history. Denison is also the author of the book Anime: A Critical Introduction and the editor of the book Princess Mononoke: Understanding Studio Ghibli's Monster Princess.
Denison describes the talk as follows:
"Studio Ghibli and its most famous director, Hayao Miyazaki, are often praised for their strong heroines. Often described as a filmmaker with feminist leanings, Miyazaki's worlds of women have obscured what it has been like for women to work at his studio. In this talk, I examine the creation of Porco Rosso (Kurenai no Buta, 1992) in order to investigate the roles women have played behind the scenes of Studio Ghibli. Providing a history of women at Studio Ghibli, this talk reconsiders the extent to which Ghibli deserves its reputation for feminism, and how far that feminism extends into its production culture."
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