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[Aaron Gerow]

On Jan 21, 2010, at 6:05 AM, Rhidian Davis wrote:

> In response to Aaron, I'm not sure Cameron's ideological cake was  
> ever meant to be eaten really, but I'm equally unconvinced that  
> Miyazaki's films are much less a part of our 'industrial  
> technological capitalism' than Cameron's. However charming his  
> aesthetic, he's not painting clay pots for neighbours and friends,  
> but participating in a globalised, multi-platform media entertaiment  
> industry. And of course the technologies of reproduced and  
> distributed cell animation began the Disneyfication of the known  
> world in the first place.

Point taken, especially about Miyazaki. That's what I was hinting at  
when I added the phrase "regardless of all his own ideological  
ambiguities" at the end of my post. The image that Miyazaki presents,  
and which less astute commentators frequently proliferate, does not  
always match the complexities and contradictions going on in his films  
and his film practice.

Aaron Gerow
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Yale University
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