<DIV><P><B>For students, fans, and scholars alike, this wide-ranging primer on anime employs a panoply of critical approaches</B><BR/><BR/> Well-known through hit movies like <I>Spirited Away</I>, <I>Akira</I>, and <I>Ghost in the Shell</I>, anime has a long history spanning a wide range of directors, genres, and styles. Christopher Bolton’s <I>Interpreting Anime</I> 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.</P><P><I>Interpreting Anime</I> 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. This analysis is abetted by a suite of questions pro