Rayna Denison

Rayna Denison is a British film and arts scholar.

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

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).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2025 (link)
• ——— (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.