This analysis is abetted by a suite of questions provoked by each film, along with Bolton’s incisive responses. 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. Interpreting Anime is easily accessible and structured around individual films and a broad array of critical approaches. 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. 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. This collection will appeal not only to educators, but to anyone invested in better understandingand perhaps participating inthe significant shift towards everyday people producing their own digital media.For students, fans, and scholars alike, this wide-ranging primer on anime employs a panoply of critical approaches
Each chapter opens with an overview of a specific DIY media practice, includes a practical how-to tutorial section, and closes with suggested applications for classroom settings. Specific DIY media practices addressed in the chapters include machinima, anime music videos, digital photography, podcasting, and music remixing. As such, it is organized around three broad areas of digital media: moving media, still media, and audio media. This book is very much concerned with engaging students in do-it-yourself digitally mediated meaning-making practices. DIY Media addresses this issue head-on, and describes expansive and creative practices of digital literacy that are increasingly influential and popular in contexts beyond the school, and whose educational potential is not yet being tapped to any significant degree in classrooms. Schools remain notorious for co-opting digital technologies to business as usual approaches to teaching new literacies.
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