Rayna Denison is a British film and arts scholar.
Biography edit
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] Denison is a professor and the head of the department of film and television at the University of Bristol.[3] She co-edited the collection Superheroes on World Screens, which was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work in 2016.[4]
Selected bibliography edit
- ——— (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.
References edit
- ^ "Anime: A Critical Introduction". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
- ^ Moon, Kat (20 July 2021). "How Spirited Away changed animation forever". Time. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
- ^ "Dr Rayna Denison". University of Bristol. Archived from the original on 12 May 2024. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
- ^ 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. Retrieved 25 May 2024.
Further reading edit
- 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. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
- 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.