Film and Philosophy Club – Princess Mononoke
October 4 @ 4:30 pm - 8:00 pm
We are proud to present the Second Session of CEPPA Film Club. This time we will gather from 4:30pm onwards to watch and discuss Studio Ghibli’s absolute classic ‘Princess Mononoke’ (see trailer here).
The movie will start SHARP at 5pm.
Please see below for some suggested prereads/prewatches, suggested by Miguel. If you’d like to volunteer to lead a Film Club in the future, please let our Film Club convenor Miguel (cc’d) know!
Videos/movies:
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Lady Eboshi is wrong by Ian Danskin: https://vimeo.com/357117766
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Hayao Miyazaki – The Essence of Humanity by Lewis Bond: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTq_D5aFy-M
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The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness (2013, dir. Mami Sunada)
Papers:
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Animated Nature: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Empathy in Miyazaki Hayao’s Ecophilosophy by Pamela Gossin (https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.5749/mech.10.2015.0209.pdf)
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Animating child activism: Environmentalism and class politics in Ghibli’s Princess Mononoke (1997) and Fox’s Fern Gully (1992) by Michelle J. Smith & Elizabeth Parsons (https://www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.st-andrews.ac.uk/doi/full/10.1080/10304312.2012.630138#d1e255)
Books:
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185 to 188 of Anime A history by Jonathan Clements.
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If you read Spanish: Biblioteca Studio Ghibli: La princesa Mononoke by Laura Montero Plata
Podcasts:
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Ghibliotheque – A Podcast About Studio Ghibli ep 5: Princess Mononoke (https://shows.acast.com/ghibliotheque/episodes/princessmononoke-ghibliotheque-5)