Why Miyazaki is a True Romantic

Is Miyazaki a modern day Romanticist? What makes Kiki's Delivery Service a particularly great film? This video is largely inspired by an essay by Brendan C. Walsh, which you can check out here: www.researchgate.net/publication/338709370_A_Modern-Day_Romantic_The_Romantic_Sublime_in_Hayao_Miyazaki's_Creative_Philosophy

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Sources:
Brendan C. Walsh (2019) A Modern-Day Romantic: The Romantic Sublime in Hayao Miyazaki’s Creative Philosophy, Comparative Literature: East & West, 3:2, 176-191,

Kurita, Kyoko. “Koda Rohan and the Origin of Modern Japanese Romanticism.’” PhD diss. Yale University, 1992. Print.

Napier, Susan J. “Confronting Master Narratives: History as Vision in Miyazaki Hayao’s Cinema of De-Assurance.” Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique 9.2 (2001): 467–93. Print.

Okada, Akiko. Keats and English Romanticism in Japan. Bern, Switzerland; New York: Peter Lang, 2006. Print.

Unnamed Films (In Order of Appearance):
Whisper of the Heart (1995)
The Wind Rises (2013)

Music:
Glass Off - Bernie Leadon
Song of India - Andre Kostelanetz
Summer Rain - Suzanne Menzel

Background Painting:
Ships in a Storm - Ivan Aivazovsky (1860)

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