Victims History, Symbolic Uniforms and Falling Fire

Welcome to our fourth podcast. This time we analyze "Grave of the Fireflies", directed by Isao Takahata. Your hosts this podcast are: TheThunderer, PlatonSkull, Hipster_Cthulhu, Miki and Nyard.

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Online Sources:

Roger Ebert on Grave of the fireflies: https://youtu.be/_9WEyuMq0Yk

Roger Eberts Grave of the Fireflies review: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-grave-of-the-fireflies-1988

Big Joels Grave of the Fireflies video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qK2Nzsvik0

"Grave of the Fireflies: The haunting relevance of Studio Ghibli's darkest film" by Heather Chen

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43695803

"Isao Takahata's stark world of reality" by Masami Ito https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/09/12/films/isao-takahatas-stark-world-reality/#.XXy6kGbgqi5

"The War on Self: Selective Memory and Historical Revisionism in Grave of the Fireflies" by Kelly J. Clark http://japanhistorylab.ca/content/war-self-selective-memory-and-historical-revisionism-grave-fireflies

"The Studio Ghibli Retrospective: 'Grave of the Fireflies'" by Christopher Runyon

http://moviemezzanine.com/studio-ghibli-retrospective-grave-of-the-fireflies/

Animerica Interviews Isao Takahata and Akiyuki Nosaka http://ghiblicon.blogspot.com/2011/04/animerica-interviews-isao-takahata-and.html

"Bedknobs, Fireflies, and the Historical Context of the Post-War" by berkeleywarreps https://berkeleywarreps.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/bedknobs-fireflies-and-the-historical-context-of-the-post-war-2/

"An Unfinished Project that was Also a Missed Opportunity: Utopia and Alternate History in Hayao Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro" by Phillip E. Wegner http://imagetext.english.ufl.edu/archives/v5_2/wegner/

Other sources:

Alistair Swale (2017): "Memory and forgetting: examining the treatment of traumatic historical memory in Grave of the Fireflies and The Wind Rises", Japan Forum, DOI: 10.1080/09555803.2017.1321570

Thomas Lamarre (2009): "Preface: WAR/TIME", Mechademia: Second Arc, Vol. 4, War/Time (2009), pp. ix-xiv Published by: University of Minnesota Press. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41510925

Wendy Goldberg (2009): Transcending the Victim's History: Takahata Isao's Grave of the Fireflies, Mechademia, Volume 4, 2009, pp. 39-52 (Article), Published by University of Minnesota Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.0.0030

Owain Jones (2012): "Black rain and fireflies: the otherness of childhood as a non-colonising adult ideology". Geography, Vol. 97, No. 3, Special issue on children's and young people's geographies (Autumn 2012), pp. 141-146. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24412191

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