Michelle Le Blanc and Colin Odell
Michelle Le Blanc and Colin Odell are film critics and writers.
Biography
[edit]Le Blanc and Odell are a married writing duo based in the United Kingdom. They first met at university. The two have been writing for Kamera Books's website since 2001,[1] and have also contributed to The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy (2005).[2]
The two wrote a book covering the filmography of the director David Lynch in 2008. In Film-Philosophy, the film scholar Liani van Straaten commended the book's structure and writing style for its approachability, but felt that it lacked the depth needed to be an academic study.[3] Stephen Rees of Library Journal felt Le Blanc and Odell managed to find new critical angles on Lynch's work, but wrote it was "not the ultimate book" on the subject.[4]
In 2009, the duo published the reference work Studio Ghibli: The Films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata.[2] They spent several months researching for the book and travelled to Japan, where they visited the Ghibli Museum and watched Ponyo (2008) before its Western release.[1] Library Journal's Terry Hong called the book "an excellent overview" of Studio Ghibli,[5] and Film Ireland's Michiko Yamada wrote it was "a must-have handbook for the Ghibli lover".[6]
The two wrote a book analysing Akira (1988) in 2014.[7] Paul Kincaid reviewed the book in the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts alongside several others published by the British Film Institute as part of its "Film Classics" series, and found it to be "useful and accessible".[8] Reviewing for Extrapolation, Steven Holmes wrote that the book could have further explored the manga (1982–1990) and the film's social contexts.[9]
Selected bibliography
[edit]- ———; ——— (2007). David Lynch. Kamera Books. ISBN 978-1-8424-3225-9.
- ———; ——— (2009). Studio Ghibli: The Films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. Kamera Books. ISBN 978-1-84243-279-2.
- ———; ——— (2014). Akira. British Film Institute. ISBN 978-1-84457-808-5.
References
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ a b Mulrooney 2010.
- ^ a b Kamera Books 2009.
- ^ van Straaten 2007, pp. 254, 259.
- ^ Rees 2010.
- ^ Hong 2009, p. 79.
- ^ Yamada 2009, p. 45.
- ^ Holmes 2017, p. 323.
- ^ Kincaid 2015, p. 546.
- ^ Holmes 2017, p. 325.
Sources
[edit]- Holmes, Steven (2017). "The apex of cel animation. Michelle Le Blanc and Colin Odell. Akira". Extrapolation. 58 (2–3): 323–325. doi:10.3828/extr.2017.15. ISSN 0014-5483. ProQuest 1980718638.
- Hong, Terry (2009). "Odell, Colin and Michelle Le Blanc. Studio Ghibli: The Films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. Osmond, Andrew. Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist ". Library Journal. 134 (16): 79. ISSN 0363-0277. Gale A210099316.
- "Interview: Michelle Le Blanc and Colin Odell". Kamera Books. August 2009. Archived from the original on 5 April 2010. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
- Kincaid, Paul (Fall 2015). "Classic? SF?". Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. 26 (3): 546. ISSN 0897-0521. Gale A531844452.
- Mulrooney, Marty (16 February 2010). "Interview – in conversation with Colin Odell and Michelle Le Blanc (authors of Studio Ghibli: The Films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata)". Alternative Magazine Online. Archived from the original on 21 February 2010. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
- Rees, Stephen (21 May 2010). "Directors go global". Library Journal. Archived from the original on 28 April 2025. Retrieved 28 April 2025.
- van Straaten, Liani (2007). "Review: Colin Odell and Michelle Le Blanc (2007), David Lynch". Film-Philosophy. 11 (3): 254–259. doi:10.3366/film.2007.0041. ISSN 1466-4615.
- Yamada, Michiko (August 2009). "Studio Ghibli: The Films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata". Film Ireland (129): 45. ISSN 0791-7546. ProQuest 194683376.
Further reading
[edit]- "New book announcement: Anime by Colin Odell and Michelle Le Blanc". Anime News Network. 30 July 2013. Archived from the original on 7 July 2022. Retrieved 29 April 2025.