Alex Dudok de Wit

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search

File:Alex Dudok de Wit (cropped).jpg
Dudok de Wit in 2022

Alex Dudok de Wit is a British journalist and writer.

Biography

[edit | edit source]

Dudok de Wit is the associate editor at the Cartoon Brew magazine, and has written for several other publications, including Sight and Sound, The Independent, and Time Out.[1] He also works as a Japanese translator,[2] and translated Hayao Miyazaki's manga Shuna's Journey (1983) into English in 2022.[3] He is the son of the animation director Michaël Dudok de Wit.[4]

Dudok de Wit published a book examining the film Grave of the Fireflies (1988), directed by Isao Takahata, through the British Film Institute in 2021.[5] It is the first English-language reference work to focus on the film.[6] He had started the project in 2018, when Takahata's death brought renewed attention to his filmography. Dudok de Wit was also inspired by a Japanese collection of materials on the film, as well as Andrew Osmond's reference work on Spirited Away (2001).[7]

Anime News Network's Rebecca Silverman wrote that the work was "thoughtfully and engagingly written", and took a naturalist perspective on the film that recontextualised many other war stories by deemphasising their overtly emotional and tragic aspects.[5] Sight and Sound's Michael Leader praised Dudok de Wit's "uncompromising attention to detail" and depth of research.[2] Osmond, also writing for Anime News Network, said that the work analyses "a mentality that Japan was the 'victim' in World War II."[8] Oliver Jia of the Asia Times wrote that the book was a "valuable service to Japanese animation studies", but felt that Dudok de Wit's conclusions lacked depth.[6]

Bibliography

[edit | edit source]
  • Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).

References

[edit | edit source]

Citations

[edit | edit source]
  1. ^ Bloomsbury.
  2. ^ a b Leader 2021, p. 91.
  3. ^ Mateo 2022.
  4. ^ Dudok de Wit 2019, 4:07–4:11: "The name is a bit of a giveaway, but I'm also [Michaël's] son."
  5. ^ a b Silverman 2021.
  6. ^ a b Jia 2021.
  7. ^ Ue 2022, pp. 200–201.
  8. ^ Osmond 2021.

Sources

[edit | edit source]
  • Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  • Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  • Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  • Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  • Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  • Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  • Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  • Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).

Lua error in Module:Authority_control at line 153: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).