{"product_id":"9781844572304","title":"Spirited Away","description":"\u003cp\u003eSpirited Away, directed by the veteran anime film-maker Hayao Miyazaki, is\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJapan's most successful film, and one of the top-grossing 'foreign language'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efilms ever released. Set in modern Japan, the film is a wildly imaginative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efantasy, at once personal and universal. It tells the story of a listless little girl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewho stumbles into a magical world where gods relax in a palatial bathhouse, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhere there are giant babies and hard-working soot sprites, and where a train\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eruns across the sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrew Osmond's insightful study describes how Miyazaki directed Spirited\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAway with a degree of creative control undreamt of in most popular cinema,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eusing the film's delightful, freewheeling visual ideas to explore issues ranging\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e from personal agency and responsibility to what Miyazaki sees as the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elamentable state of modern Japan. Osmond unpacks the film's visual language, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhich many Western (and some Japanese) audiences find both beautiful and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebewildering. He traces connections between Spirited Away and Miyazaki's prior\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebody of work, arguing that Spirited Away uses the cartoon medium to create a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecompellingly immersive drawn world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BFI Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47059263324400,"sku":"9781844572304","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781844572304_p0.jpg?v=1763743703","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781844572304","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}