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Film scholars (as well as critics, reviewers, and audiences) have long recognized the works of Studio Ghibli, and in particular, the films directed by Hayao Miyazaki, as superb contributions not only to anime (Japanese animation), but to cinema in general.

This bibliography presents a comprehensive listing of English-language scholarly writing (monographs, chapters in edited essay collections, and articles in peer-reviewed journals) on the work of Hayao Miyazaki and his colleagues.

Last Updated: January 26, 2026

New additions:

• Lindsay Coleman, Rayna Denison, & David Desser (eds.). The Many Worlds of Takahata Isao.
  Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.

• Dominic J. Nardi & Keli Fancher (eds). Studio Ghibli Films as Adaptations: Investigating How the Japanese Animation Powerhouse Reimagines Stories.
  New York: Bloomsbury Academic.

• Anderson, Nick. Miyazaki in the time of cherries: Retrospective resonances in two European songs from Porco Rosso (1992) and The Wind Rises (2013). Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, 6(1), 38-47

• Crombie, Zoe. From Little Mermaid to feral child: The rebellious trajectory of the wild girl in Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo. Northern Lights: Film and Media Studies Yearbook, 23, 137-149. 

• Yoneyama, Shoko, Szorenyi, Anna, & Nursey-Bray, Melissa. Animism meets posthumanism: Reimagining the human–nature relationship through shrine gates (torii) in the works of Miyazaki Hayao and Shinkai Makoto. Japan Forum (forthcoming).