Episode 140: That Ain't Plot: On Hayao Miyazaki's 'Spirited Away' - a podcast by Phil Ford and J. F. Martel

Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away is one of those rare films that is both super popular and super weird. Rife with cinematic non sequiturs, unforgettable imagery, and moments of horror, it is an outstanding example of a story form that goes all the way back to the myth of Psyche and Eros from Apuleius's Golden Ass, if not earlier. In this type of story, a girl on the cusp of maturity steps into a magical realm where people and things from waking life reappear, draped in the gossamer of dream and nightmare. Musicologist and WS assistant Meredith Michael joins JF and Phil to discuss a strange jewel of Japanese animated cinema.
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Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies)REFERENCES
Hayao Miyazaki, Spirited Away (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245429/)Kyle Gann, Robert Ashley (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780252078873)
Robert Ashely, [Perfect Lives](https://ubu.com/film/ashleyperfect.html)_
Apuleius, “Psyche and Eros” from The Golden Ass (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780199540556)Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780486417677)
Kentucky Route Zero (http://kentuckyroutezero.com/), video gameLegend of Zelda Breath of the Wild (https://www.zelda.com/breath-of-the-wild/), video game
Jean Sibelius, 5th Symphony (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcjvvBbZhn4&ab_channel=hr-Sinfonieorchester%E2%80%93FrankfurtRadioSymphony)
Quentin Tarantino (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000233/), film makerMark Rothko (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rothko), American painter
Giles Deleuze, “What is the Creative Act?” (https://www.kit.ntnu.no/sites/www.kit.ntnu.no/files/what_is_the_creative_act.pdf)GK Chesterton, Orthdoxy (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781952410482)
Herman Hesse, Siddhartha (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780553208849)Andrew Osmond, BFI Guide to Spirited Away (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781838719524)
Special Guest: Meredith Michael.

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