Japanese Horror Cinema /

Japanese Horror Cinema / / Jay McRoy.

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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748619955);A much-needed critical introduction to some of the most important Japanese horror films produced over the last fifty years, Japanese Horror Cinema provides an insightful examination of the tradition's most significant trends and themes. The...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
VerfasserIn:
McRoy, Jay,
MitwirkendeR:
Bolton, Christopher,
Brophy, Philip,
Conrich, Ian,
Evans, Gareth,
Goldberg, Ruth,
Hand, Richard J.,
Hantke, Steffen,
Hills, Matt,
Lafond, Frank,
Lewis, Graham,
McRoy, Jay,
Sharrett, Christopher,
White, Eric,
Williams, Tony,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2005
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Traditions in World Cinema : TWC
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • PREFACE: JAPANESE HORROR CINEMA
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I HISTORY, TRADITION AND JAPANESE HORROR CINEMA
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. AESTHETICS OF CRUELTY: TRADITIONAL JAPANESE THEATRE AND THE HORROR FILM
  • 2. THE NIGHTMARE OF ROMANTIC PASSION IN THREE CLASSIC JAPANESE HORROR FILMS
  • 3. CASE STUDY: NAKATA HIDEO’S RINGU AND RINGU 2
  • PART 2 GENDER, TERROR AND THE ‘AVENGING SPIRIT’ MOTIF IN JAPANESE HORROR CINEMA
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 4. JAPANESE HORROR UNDER WESTERN EYES: SOCIAL CLASS AND GLOBAL CULTURE IN MIIKE TAKASHI’S AUDITION
  • 5. ANIME HORROR AND ITS AUDIENCE: 3X3 EYES AND VAMPIRE PRINCESS MIYU
  • 6. CASE STUDY: ISHII TAKASHI’S FREEZE ME AND THE RAPE-REVENGE FILM
  • PART 3 NATIONAL ANXIETIES AND CULTURAL FEARS IN JAPANESE HORROR CINEMA
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 7. METAL-MORPHOSIS: POSTINDUSTRIAL CRISIS AND THE TORMENTED BODY IN THE TETSUO FILMS
  • 8. CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION, CORPOREAL PROHIBITIONS AND BODY HORROR IN SATO HISAYASU’S NAKED BLOOD
  • 9. PINNOCHIO 964, DEATH POWDER AND THE POST-HUMAN CONDITION
  • 10. CASE STUDY: BATTLE ROYALE’S APOCALYPTIC MILLENNIAL WARNING1
  • PART 4 JAPANESE HORROR CINEMA AND THE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION OF FEAR
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 11. ARASHI GA OKA (ONIMARU): THE SOUND OF THE WORLD TURNED INSIDE OUT
  • 12. RINGING THE CHANGES: CULT DISTINCTIONS AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN US FANS’ READINGS OF JAPANESE HORROR CINEMA
  • 13. CASE STUDY: CINEMATIC HYBRIDITY IN SHIMIZU TAKASHI’S JU-ON: THE GRUDGE
  • FILMOGRAPHY: JAPANESE HORROR FILMS AND THEIR DVD AVAILABILITY IN THE UK AND US
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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