Nightmare Japan : : contemporary Japanese horror cinema / / Jay McRoy.
Over the last two decades, Japanese filmmakers have produced some of the most important and innovative works of cinematic horror. At once visually arresting, philosophically complex, and politically charged, films by directors like Tsukamoto Shinya ( Tetsuo: The Iron Man [1988] and Tetsuo II: Body H...
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| Superior document: | Contemporary cinema, 4 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Contemporary cinema ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 pages) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- ‘New Waves’, Old Terrors and Emerging Fears
- Guinea Pigs and Entrails: Cultural Transformations and Body Horror in Japanese Torture Film
- Cultural Transformation, Corporeal Prohibitions and Body Horror in Sato Hisayasu’s Naked Blood and Muscle
- Ghosts of the Present, Spectres of the Past: the kaidan and the Haunted Family in the Cinema of Nakata Hideo and Shimizu Takashi
- A Murder of Doves: Youth Violence and the Rites of Passing in Contemporaray Japanese Horror Cinema
- Spiraling into Apocalypse: Sono Shion’s Suicide Circle, Higuchinsky’s Uzumaki, and Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s Pulse
- New Terrors, Emerging Trends and the Future of Japanese Horror
- Works Cited and Consulted
- Index.