Grave of the Fireflies

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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