Laputa – Totoro – Ponyo: Postmodern narrative of childhood in three anime from Miyazaki

Authors

  • Orsolya Endrődy Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Education and Psychology
  • Zsófia Alföldy Eötvös Loránd University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3311/ope.540

Abstract

This research aims to examine the postmodern narrative of childhood through the following animated films by the Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki: Laputa – Castle in the Sky, released in 1986; My neighbor Totoro, released in 1988; and Ponyo, released in 2008. The characters in the cartoons are all in their early childhood. The task is not an easy one: it is not possible to make an objective analysis of Japanese culture with a Western mindset, so our research is as much a cultural analysis as a visual one.

Author Biographies

Orsolya Endrődy, Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Education and Psychology

Orsolya Endrődy-Nagy, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Education and Psychology, and the Budapest University of Technology and Economics Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences. Her main interests are early childhood, comparative educational research, visual studies, inclusion, and intercultural understanding. She is an editor and associate editor in the leading academic and scientific journals in Hungary as well as a member of the board of the Hungarian Educational Scientific Association; she is an associate on the board of the Journal of Early Childhood Research in Indonesia. She has recently published a whole issue on Early Childhood in Global Contexts. She also has highly cited publications in Education, Childhood, and Linguistics.

Zsófia Alföldy, Eötvös Loránd University

Zsófia Alföldy, MEd, has majored as a Primary teacher at the Faculty of Preschool and Primary Education Eötvös Loránd University, and she has a Master's degree from the same university. She finished her Education MA summa cum laude at the Faculty of Education and Psychology. Ever since she is a primary teacher. She often uses visual tools in her practice, and her research interests include visual analysis and early childhood research.

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Published

2023-07-03

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2023): 36. szám

Section

Tanulmányok