Ghost movies in Southeast Asia and beyond : : narratives, cultural contexts, audiences / / edited by Peter J. Braunlein and Andrea Lauser.
Ghost Movies in Southeast Asia and Beyond explores ghost movies, one of the most popular film genres in East and Southeast Asia, by focusing on movie narratives, the cultural contexts of their origins and audience reception. In the middle of the Asian crisis of the late 1990s, ghost movies became ma...
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| Superior document: | Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Volume 306 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ;
Volume 306. Southeast Asia mediated ; Volume 7. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (309 pages) :; color illustrations, photographs. |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Peter J. Bräunlein and Andrea Lauser
- Introduction: ‘Cinema-Spiritualism’ in Southeast Asia and Beyond: Encounters with Ghosts in the 21st Century / Peter J. Bräunlein
- Universal Hybrids: The Trans/Local Production of Pan-Asian Horror / Vivian Lee
- Well-Travelled Female Avengers: The Transcultural Potential of Japanese Ghosts / Elisabeth Scherer
- Telling Tales: Variety, Community, and Horror in Thailand / Martin Platt
- ‘Sundelbolong’ as a Mode of Femininity: Analysis of Popular Ghost Movies in Indonesia / Maren Wilger
- 5 That’s the Spirit!: Horror Films as an Extension of Thai Supernaturalism / Katarzyna Ancuta
- The Khmer Witch Project: Demonizing the Khmer by Khmerizing a Demon / Benjamin Baumann
- Stepping Out from the Silver Screen and into the Shadows: The Fearsome, Ephemeral Ninjas of Timor-Leste / Henri Myrttinen
- The Supernatural and Post-war Thai Film: Traditional Monsters and Social Mobility / Mary Ainslie
- Globalized Haunting: The Transnational Spectral in Apichatpong’s Syndromes and a Century and its Reception / Natalie Boehler
- Pencak Silat, Ghosts, and (Inner) Power: Reception of Martial Arts Movies and Television Series amongst Young Pencak Silat Practitioners in Indonesia / Patrick Keilbart
- Ghost Movies, the Makers, and their Audiences: Andrea Lauser in Conversation with the Filmmakers Katarzyna Ancuta and Solarsin Ngoenwichit from Thailand and Mattie Do from Laos / Andrea Lauser
- Index / Peter J. Bräunlein and Andrea Lauser
- Film Index / Peter J. Bräunlein and Andrea Lauser.