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LEVEL 1
brief, basic information laid out in an easy-to-read format. May use informal language. (Includes most news articles)
LEVEL 2
provides additional background information and further reading. Introduces some subject-specific language.
LEVEL 3
lengthy, detailed information. Frequently uses technical/subject-specific language. (Includes most analytical articles)
Databases
- Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre Plus This link opens in a new window This resource provides the largest collection of full text from leading regional and international newspapers and periodicals, full-text reference books, tens of thousands of full-text biographies, and a collection of images containing more than one million photos, maps, and flags.
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Official Website
- Ghibli. (2001). Spirited Away. Retrieve from http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/sen/
Studio Ghibli is the animation studio created by Hayao Miyazaki. This Ghibli web site contains information on the story, reviews, related websites as well as interviews from Hayao Miyazaki.
Summary
- IMDb. (2001). Spirited Away. Retrieved from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209144/synopsis?ref_=ttpl_ql_3
Synposis of Spirited Away (may contain spoilers). Ten-year-old Chihiro (voice: Daveigh Chase in the 2002 English dub) and her parents (voices: Lauren Holly and Michael Chiklis) drive to their new home. Chihiro is whiny and unhappy about the move, especially when she notices that the bouquet her friend gave her as a good-bye gift is wilting. In sight of their new house, they take a wrong turn and follow a bumpy, decayed old road through the woods; Chihiro sees an odd old statue through the trees as they drive by. The road ends at a tunnel leading to an abandoned theme park. It gives Chihiro the creeps, but her parents persuade her to go in with them and look around.
Introduction
This research guide has been created to support the Year 12 Media Production and Analysis students studying Spirited Away.
Miyazaki’s Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001; Spirited Away) captured the top prize at the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival, won best Asian film at the Hong Kong Film Awards, and was named best animated feature at the 2003 Academy Awards. In his native Japan it won best picture at the 2002 Japanese Academy Awards and replaced Titanic as the top-grossing film in Japanese history. In the film, Chihiro, an ordinary if slightly spoiled young girl, wanders away from her parents and enters a realm of gods and magic. There, dubbed with the name Sen, she is forced to make do with her wits in an effort to reclaim her name and return to the human world.
(Encyclopedia Britannica, 2017)
Spirited Away Trailer
Miyazaki, H. (Director & Writer). (2001). Spirited Away [Motion Picture]. JAP: Tokuma Shoten
Spirited Away feature Film
Miyazaki, H. (Director & Writer). (2001). Spirited Away [Motion Picture]. JAP: Tokuma Shoten
Miyazaki Hayao (Writer & Director)
- Miyazaki, H. (2001). Interview about Spirited Away. Retrieved from http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/interviews/sen.htmlMiyazaki: This movie is a story about a 10-year-old whose father and mother happened to eat something they shouldn't have, and so became pigs. The movie appears to be satire, but that isn't my purpose. I have five young female friends who are about the same age as Hiiragi-san*, and I spend every summer with them at my mountain cabin. I wanted to make a movie they could enjoy. That is why I started this film, and that is my true purpose.
- Studio Ghibli. (n.d.). Hayao Miyazaki. Retrieved from http://studio-ghibli.wikia.com/wiki/Hayao_MiyazakiHayao Miyazaki (宮崎 駿, Miyazaki Hayao, born January 5, 1941 in Tokyo, Japan) is a famous director of many popular anime films. He also co-founded Studio Ghibli, along with Isao Takahata and Toshio Suzuki. He was almost unknown in the West until the release of Princess Mononoke in 1997. His later film, Spirited Away, went on to be the first anime to ever win an Academy Award. Howl's Moving Castle was nominated for an Academy Award but did not win.
- Miyazaki, H. (2001). The Purpose of the Film. Retrieved from http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/sen/proposal.htmlThis film is an adventure story, although the characters neither swing weapons around, nor use supernatural powers in battle. It is an adventure story, but its theme is not a confrontation between good and evil. It will be a story of a girl who was thrown into a world where both good and evil exist. She gets trained, learns about friendship and devotion, and survives by using her wisdom. She finds her way out, dodges, and comes back to her old daily life for the time being. However, it is not because evil was destroyed -- just as the world does not disappear, (evil does not disappear). It is because she gained the power to live. Today, the world has become ambigous; but even though it is ambiguous, the world is encroaching and trying to consume (everything). It is the main theme of this film to describe such a world clearly in the form of a fantasy.
- Miyazaki Hayao. (2017). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://school.eb.com.au.db.plcscotch.wa.edu.au/levels/high/article/Miyazaki-Hayao/476711Miyazaki Hayao, (born January 5, 1941, Tokyo, Japan), Japanese anime director whose lyrical and allusive works won both critical and popular acclaim. This Britannica article gives an account of Miyazaki Hayao's life and the evolution of his work.
