Rayna Denison Explained

Rayna Denison is a British film and arts scholar.

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. She has previously taught as a senior lecturer at the University of East Anglia. Denison is a professor and the head of the department of film and television at the University of Bristol. She co-edited the collection Superheroes on World Screens, which was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work in 2016.

Selected bibliography

• Book: Denison, Rayna . 3 . Anime: A Critical Introduction . . 2015 . 978-1-4725-7681-1 . none.
• Book: Superheroes on World Screens . . 2015 . 978-1-6284-6234-0 . Denison . Rayna . 3 . Mizsei-Ward . Rachel . none.
• Book: Princess Mononoke: Understanding Studio Ghibli's Monster Princess . . 2018 . 978-1-5013-2976-0 . Denison . Rayna . 3 . none.
• Book: Denison, Rayna . 3 . Studio Ghibli: An Industrial History . . 2023 . 978-3-031-16843-7 . none.

Further reading

• Baetens . Jan . Rayna Denison and Rachel Mizsei-Ward, eds, Superheroes on World Screens . Image & Narrative . 16 . 3 . 2015 . 117–118 . 2024-03-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180411123613/https://www.imageandnarrative.be/index.php/imagenarrative/article/view/922/712 . 2018-04-11 . live . PDF.
• Cardullo . Paolo . Anime: A Critical Introduction by Rayna Denison . Visual Studies . 32 . 1 . 2017-01-02 . 1472-586X . 10.1080/1472586X.2016.1271053 . 90–91.
• Cook . Malcolm . Rayna Denison (ed.), Princess Mononoke: Understanding Studio Ghibli's Monster Princess . Screen . 60 . 2 . 2019-06-01 . 0036-9543 . 10.1093/screen/hjz013 . 351–356.
• Humann . Heather Duerre . Superheroes on World Screens, ed. Rayna Denison and Rachel Mizsei-Ward . Journal of Popular Film and Television . 43 . 4 . 2015-10-02 . 0195-6051 . 10.1080/01956051.2015.1095606 . 220–221.
• Ingle . Zachary . Princess Mononoke: Understanding Studio Ghibli's Monster Princess . Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television . 39 . 3 . 2019-07-03 . 0143-9685 . 10.1080/01439685.2018.1563391 . 624–626.
• Mickwitz . Nina . Superheroes On World Screens . Transnational Cinemas . 8 . 2 . 2017-07-03 . 2040-3526 . 10.1080/20403526.2016.1208428 . 178–180.