Spirituality, Aesthetics, and Aware: Feeling Shinto in Miyazaki Hayao's My Neighbour Totoro

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dc.contributor.authorCarbullido, Sherri
dc.contributor.supervisorNoro, Hiroko
dc.contributor.supervisorIles, Timothy
dc.date.accessioned2013-12-03T21:32:58Z
dc.date.available2013-12-03T21:32:58Z
dc.date.copyright2013en_US
dc.date.issued2013-12-03
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Pacific and Asian Studiesen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe thesis will explore the idea of feeling Japanese spirituality of Shinto through a contemporary work of art, the animated film My Neighbour Totoro (1988). The idea of a felt spirituality revolves around Shinto’s notion of kami, divine entities whose existence becomes manifest through one’s feeling and perception to awe-inspiring things of the natural world and the aesthetic notion of aware, an immediate felt emotional response that coincides as the response/reaction when coming into contact with awe-inspiring things. This thesis conceives aware to be the meeting point in which the human and kami world converge, a Shinto concept known as shinjin-g itsu, or the meeting of the human spirit with kami. This thesis will uncover themes of Shinto spirituality through a close reading of the functionality of specific components of the film: music, setting, characters, character interactions, and symbolism. Themes such as nature, community, symbolism and the role of aesthetics within the film will be discussed to showcase the idea of a spiritual encounter. It is a spiritual encounter/meeting that is facilitated through the aesthetics and components of the film which elicits a response of aware from the viewer.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0322en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0332en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0900en_US
dc.description.proquestemailscarbul@gmail.comen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/5061
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectaestheticsen_US
dc.subjectanimated filmen_US
dc.subjectShintoen_US
dc.subjectawareen_US
dc.subjectspiritualityen_US
dc.subjectkamien_US
dc.titleSpirituality, Aesthetics, and Aware: Feeling Shinto in Miyazaki Hayao's My Neighbour Totoroen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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