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For students, fans, and scholars alike, this wide-ranging primer on anime employs a panoply of critical approaches Well-known through hit movies like Spirited Away, Akira, and Ghost in the Shell, anime has a long history spanning a wide range of directors, genres, and styles. Christopher Bolton's Interpreting Anime is a thoughtful, carefully organized introduction to Japanese animation for anyone eager to see why this genre has remained a vital, adaptable art form for decades.Interpreting Anime is easily accessible and structured around individual films and a broad array of critical approaches. Each chapter centers on a different feature-length anime film, juxtaposing it with a particular medium - like literary fiction, classical Japanese theater, and contemporary stage drama - to reveal what is unique about anime's way of representing the world.
About the Author
I am a professor of comparative and Japanese literature at Williams College. My research and writing center on Japanese fiction and visual culture, particularly anime.
