My Neighbor Totoro

Hara, Kunio (2020). Joe Hisaishi's Soundtrack for My Neighbor Totoro. New York Bloomsbury Academic.

Kosuke, Fujiki (2015). My Neighbor Totoro: The healing of nature, the nature of healing. Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities, 2(3), 152-157.

Greenbeg, Raz (2012). Giri and Ninjo: The roots of Hayao Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro in animated adaptations of classic children's literature. Literature/Film Quarterly, 40(2), 96-108

Heinricy, Shana (2010). Take a ride on the Catbus.
In Anime and Philosophy: Wide Eyed Wonder (pp. 3-11). Chicago: Open Court Publishing.

Niskanen, Eija (2010). Riding through air and water - The relationship between character, background, fantasy and realism in Hayao Miyazaki’s films.
In Eija Niskanen (ed.) Imaginary Japan: Japanese Fantasy in Contemporary Popular Culture (pp. 16-19). Turku, Finland: International Institute for Popular Culture.

Wegner, Phillip (2010). "An unfinished project that was also a missed opportunity": Utopia and alternate history in Hayao Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro. ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies, 5(2).

Stibbe, Arran (2007). Zen and the art of environmental education in the Japanese animated film Tonari no Totoro. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 1(4), 468-488

"The animated film Tonari no Totoro (My Neighbour Totoro) vividly depicts the interaction of people, forest spirits and nature in rural Japan. This article analyses the film both in its original Japanese and in two dubbed English versions, in relation to the film’s potential to contribute to environmental awareness. The starting point is a discussion of the limitations of current environmental education, in particular its focus on the abstract, the global, and the technical, at the expense of detailed observation of local ecosystems and the discovery of value within those systems. This is followed by analysis of Tonari no Totoro, focusing on how ecological insights drawn from Zen, Shintō and traditional Japanese culture are subtly woven into the film. The conclusion describes how the visual and linguistic features used in the film have the potential to promote a form of ecological consciousness closely attuned to the local environment."

McDonald, Keiko (2006). Animation seminal and influential: Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro (1998).
In Reading a Japanese Film: Cinema in Context (pp. 176-186). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Okuhara, Rieko (2006). Walking along with nature: A psychological interpretation of My Neighbor Totoro. The Looking Glass: An On-Line Children's Literature Journal, 10(2)

"Rieko Okuhara uses the famous film My Neighbor Totoro to provide a snapshot of contemporary Japanese society while also delving into the film's increasingly global popularity. I'm sure readers will find this article thought-provoking, especially when considering other Miyazaki films or current Japanese children's literature in all its forms.

Prunes, Mariano (2003). Having it both ways: Making children films an adult matter in Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro. Asian Cinema, 14(1), 45-55.

"Miyazaki Hayao's fourth feature length film, My Neighbor Totoro (1988), became an instant popular and critical success which proved fundamental in establishing both Miyazaki's and the Studio Ghibli's reputation as producers of the finest Japanese animation of the last two decades, a position confirmed by Miyazaki's triumph at the Berlin Film Festival this year. My Neighbor Totoro, like most Miyazaki's films, is centered on the world of children, and usually is marketed and discussed as a children's film. However, the film has also proven extremely successful with the international audience for Japanese animation, one that is characterized by (and often denigrated for) its preference of more mature, or definitively adult, subject matter."