Rayna Denison

Rayna Denison
Denison in 2024
Occupation	Film and arts scholar
Alma mater	University of Nottingham
Notable works	Anime: A Critical Introduction Studio Ghibli: An Industrial History

Rayna Denison is a British film and arts scholar.

Biography

Denison pursued Japanese studies at the University of Oxford, continuing to the University of Nottingham to attain her Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. ^[1] She has previously taught as a senior lecturer at the University of East Anglia. ^{[2] [3]} Denison is a professor and the head of the department of film and television at the University of Bristol. ^{[4] [5]} She co-edited the collection Superheroes on World Screens, which was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work in 2016. ^{[6] [7]}

Selected bibliography

Books

• ——— (2015). Anime: A Critical Introduction. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN   978-1-4725-7681-1.
• ———; Mizsei-Ward, Rachel, eds. (2015). Superheroes on World Screens. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN   978-1-6284-6234-0.
• ———, ed. (2018). Princess Mononoke: Understanding Studio Ghibli's Monster Princess. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN   978-1-5013-2976-0.
• ——— (2023). Studio Ghibli: An Industrial History. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN   978-3-031-16843-7.

Chapters

• ——— (2007). "The Global Markets for Japanese Film: Transforming Miyazaki Hayao's Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi into Spirited Away". In Phillips, Alastair; Stringer, Julian (eds.). Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts. London: Routledge. pp. 308–321. ISBN   978-0-4153-2848-7.
• ——— (2008). "The Language of the Blockbuster: Marketing, Princess Mononoke and the Daihitto in Japanese Film Culture". In Hunt, Leon; Wing-Fai, Leung (eds.). East Asian Cinemas: Transnational Connections on Film. I.B. Tauris. pp. 103–122. ISBN   978-1-8451-1614-9.
• ——— (January 2017). "Anime's Star Voices: Voice Actor (Seiyū) Performance and Stardom in Japan". In Whittaker, Tom; Wright, Sarah (eds.). Locating the Voice in Film: Critical Approaches and Global Practices. pp. 101–118. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190261122.003.0007. ISBN   978-0-1902-6115-3.

Journal articles

• ——— (November 2005). "Disembodied stars and the cultural meanings of Princess Mononoke's soundscape" (PDF). Scope (3). ISSN   1465-9166. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 March 2024.
• ——— (July 2008). "Star-Spangled Ghibli: Star Voices in the American Versions of Miyazaki Hayao's Films". Animation . 3 (2): 129–146. doi:10.1177/1746847708091891.
• ——— (15 December 2010). "Anime tourism: discursive construction and reception of the Studio Ghibli Art Museum". Japan Forum. 22 (3–4): 545–563. doi:10.1080/09555803.2010.533475.
• ——— (September 2011). "Anime fandom and the liminal spaces between fan creativity and piracy". International Journal of Cultural Studies . 14 (5): 449–466. doi:10.1177/1367877910394565.
• ——— (2014). "Franchising and Failure: Discourses of Failure within the Japanese-American Speed Racer Franchise". Mechademia . 9: 269–281. doi:10.1353/mec.2014.0011.
• ———; Furukawa, Hiroko (21 November 2014). "Disaster and relief: The 3.11 Tohoku and Fukushima disasters and Japan's media industries". International Journal of Cultural Studies . 18 (2). doi:10.1177/136787791455930 (inactive 1 July 2025).
• ——— (Winter 2016). "Franchising and Film in Japan: Transmedia Production and the Changing Roles of Film in Contemporary Japanese Media Cultures" (DOC). Cinema Journal . 55 (2): 67–88. doi:10.1353/cj.2016.0006. ISSN   2578-4919.
• ——— (1 April 2018). "Before Ghibli was Ghibli: Analysing the Historical Discourses Surrounding Hayao Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky (1986)" (PDF). East Asian Journal of Popular Culture . 4 (1): 31–46. doi: 10.1386/eapc.4.1.31_1 . ISSN   2051-7084.
• ——— (2 April 2020). "Hayao Miyazaki's European Animation: From European Literary Influences to Nostalgic Re-imaginings". Wasafiri . 35 (2): 67–73. doi:10.1080/02690055.2020.1721124.

References

1. "Anime: A Critical Introduction". Bloomsbury. Archived from the original on 26 May 2024.
2. Moon, Kat (20 July 2021). "How Spirited Away changed animation forever". Time . Archived from the original on 5 August 2023.
3. Bedingfield, Will (11 July 2019). "Why fans should love the idea of a new Akira movie". Wired . Archived from the original on 13 January 2025.
4. "Dr Rayna Denison". University of Bristol. Archived from the original on 12 May 2024.
5. Marsh, Calum (2 January 2024). "Anime is going digital. Fans are wary". The New York Times . Archived from the original on 2 January 2024.
6. Brown, Luke (23 July 2016). "Brilliant art, tremendous stories, and daring creators: The 2016 Eisner Award winners". ComicsAlliance. Archived from the original on 13 October 2022.
7. Cavna, Michael (19 April 2016). "2016 Eisner Awards: 'The Oscars of comics' announces record number of nominations for women" . The Washington Post . Archived from the original on 19 April 2016.

Further reading

• Alpert, Steve (2024). "Studio Ghibli: An Industrial History by Rayna Denison (review)". Monumenta Nipponica . 79 (1): 153–162. doi:10.1353/mni.2024.a936530. ISSN   1880-1390.
• Baetens, Jan (2015). "Rayna Denison and Rachel Mizsei-Ward, eds, Superheroes on World Screens". Image & Narrative (PDF). 16 (3): 117–118. Archived from the original on 11 April 2018.
• Cardullo, Paolo (2 January 2017). "Anime: A Critical Introduction by Rayna Denison". Visual Studies. 32 (1): 90–91. doi:10.1080/1472586X.2016.1271053. ISSN   1472-586X.
• Cook, Malcolm (1 June 2019). "Rayna Denison (ed.), Princess Mononoke: Understanding Studio Ghibli's Monster Princess". Screen. 60 (2): 351–356. doi:10.1093/screen/hjz013. ISSN   0036-9543.
• Humann, Heather Duerre (2 October 2015). "Superheroes on World Screens, ed. Rayna Denison and Rachel Mizsei-Ward". Journal of Popular Film and Television. 43 (4): 220–221. doi:10.1080/01956051.2015.1095606. ISSN   0195-6051.
• Ingle, Zachary (3 July 2019). "Princess Mononoke: Understanding Studio Ghibli's Monster Princess". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 39 (3): 624–626. doi:10.1080/01439685.2018.1563391. ISSN   0143-9685.
• Mickwitz, Nina (3 July 2017). "Superheroes On World Screens". Transnational Cinemas. 8 (2): 178–180. doi:10.1080/20403526.2016.1208428. ISSN   2040-3526.
• Osmond, Andrew (30 March 2025). "Studio Ghibli: An Industrial History". Anime News Network . Archived from the original on 3 December 2024.