“The World is Cursed”: Studio Ghibli’s Radical Environmental Philosophy by Claire Patzner

“…This paper focuses on Studio Ghibli’s ecocritical depictions compared to its American Hollywood animated counterparts, such as Walt Disney Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, and DreamWorks Pictures. Although American major animated film studios do not reflect as frequently or directly on the climate crisis, I draw from the more overt and didactic American major environmentalist films WALL-E, The Lorax, and Over the Hedge in these juxtapositions. …”
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