Interpreting anime /
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...
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| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2018]
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| Summary: | 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, in order to reveal what is unique about anime's way of representing the world. This analysis is abetted by a suite of questions provoked by each film, along with Bolton's incisive responses. Throughout, Interpreting Anime applies multiple frames, such as queer theory, psychoanalysis and theories of postmodernism, giving readers a thorough understanding of both the cultural underpinnings and critical significance of each film. What emerges from the sweep of Interpreting Anime is Bolton's original, articulate case for what makes anime unique as a medium: how it at once engages profound social and political realities while also drawing attention to the very challenges of representing reality in animation's imaginative and compelling visual forms. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 322 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781517904036 151790403X 9781517904029 1517904021 |