I’d Rather Be a Pig than a Fascist: How Ideology Works in Fantasy Films
I’d Rather Be a Pig than a Fascist: How Ideology Works in Fantasy Films

Summary/Abstract: Hollywood fantasy and sci-fi movies from the last two decades unveil a strict and very rigid perception of contemporary public space and of the idea of community. There is a clear ideology at work which produces an aesthetic structure adapted to the new technological forms. In this context the movies of the Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki can be construed as works on the threshold: they have to obey Western rules of the genre and of our times and yet they produce a certain supplement that resists being drawn into the same ideological sphere. This unresolved tension has the power to preserve for the genre of fantasy an aesthetic dimension and the hope for a possible reinvention.

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