Japanese Horror Culture

Japanese Horror Culture

Critical Essays on Film, Literature, Anime, Video Games

Waddell, Calum; Saha, Ananya; Bhattacharjee, Subashish; Bhattacharjee, Subashish; Berns, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni; Mandal, Bipasha; Greene, Barbara; Berns, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni; Kratky, Daniel; Negrych, Megan

Lexington Books

11/2021

242

Dura

Inglês

9781793647054

15 a 20 dias

626

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Introduction: Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Subashish Bhattacharjee

Part 1: National Traumas and Repressions

Chapter 1: The Ghost of Imperialism: Japan's Forgotten Horrors in the Shadow of Sadako. Calum Waddell

Chapter 2: A Modern Monster: Shin-Godzilla and its Place in the Discourse Concerning 3.11 and National Resilience. Barbara Greene

Chapter 3: Cultural Trauma, Cross-Flow of Aesthetics, and the Child: A Comparison between Ringu and The Ring. Bipasha Mandal

Chapter 4: Space, Smoke and Mirrors: The Frightening Ambiguity of Ju-On: Origins (2020). Daniel Kratky

Chapter 5: "The Dead Speak: Horror and the Modern Ghost in Eiji Otsuka's The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service. Megan Negrych

Part 2: Posthuman Monsters and Grotesque Bodies

Chapter 6: "Love in a Chair": Industrialization and Exploitation Edogawa Rampo's "The Human Chair" and Junji Ito's Manga Adaptation. Leonie Rowland

Chapter 7: The Monstrous Feminine in Mari Asato's J-Horror Films. Canela Ailen Rodriguez Fontao and Mariana Zarate

Chapter 8: Composite Corpses and Viruses of Viewing: J-Horror as Film and Media Theory. William Carroll

Chapter 9: Spiral into Samsara in Junji Ito's J-Horror Masterpiece Uzumaki. Wayne Stein

Chapter 10: Controlling the Inner Demon: Theological Approaches on Devilman. Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns

Part 3: Cultural Flows

Chapter 11: The Transpacific Complicity of J-Horror and Hollywood. Sean Hudson

Chapter 12: Revisiting the Orphan Girl Narrative in Rule of Rose. Ingrid Butler

Chapter 13: Idol Culture and Gradations of Reality in Japanese Found Footage Horror Films. Dennin Ellis

Chapter 14: Obscure, Reveal, Repeat: Hidden Worlds and Uncertain Truths in Koji Shiraishi's The Curse and Occult. Lindsay Nelson

About the Editors

About the Contributors
anime;horror cinema;horror literature;horror video games;Japanese horror;kaiju cinema