Format:
1 Online-Ressource (235 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781793647061
Series Statement:
Lexington Books Horror Studies
Content:
This book investigates the philosophical, socio-cultural, and artistic world of Japanese horror through a varied range of case studies, including video games (Rule of Rose), manga (Uzumaki), and anime (the classic Devilman). Film is represented with well-known works such as Ringu and overlooked filmmakers like Mari Asato
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- National Traumas and Repressions -- The Ghost of Imperialism -- A Modern Monster -- Cultural Trauma, Cross-Flow of Aesthetics, and the Child -- Space, Smoke, and Mirrors -- The Dead Speak -- Posthuman Monsters and Grotesque Bodies -- "Love in a Chair" -- The Monstrous Feminine in Mari Asato J-Horror films -- Composite Corpses and Viruses of Viewing -- Spiral into Samsara in Junji Ito's J-Horror Masterpiece Uzumaki -- Controlling the Inner Demon -- Cultural Flows -- The Transpacific Complicity of J-Horror and Hollywood -- Revisiting the Orphan Girl Narrative in Rule of Rose -- Idol Culture and Gradations of Reality in Japanese Found Footage Horror Films -- Obscure, Reveal, Repeat -- Index -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors
Note:
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Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781793647054
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
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General works
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
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