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Japanese Horror Culture
Critical Essays on Film, Literature, Anime, Video Games
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2021
Summary
Contemporary Japanese horror is deeply rooted in the folklore of its culture, with fairy tales-like ghost stories embedded deeply into the social, cultural, and religious fabric. Ever since the emergence of the J-horror phenomenon in the late 1990s with the opening and critical success of films such as Hideo Nakata’s The Ring (Ringu, 1998) or Takashi Miike’s Audition (Ôdishon, 1999), Japanese horror has been a staple of both film studies and Western culture. Scholars and fans alike throughout the world have been keen to observe and analyze the popularity and roots of the phenomenon that took the horror scene by storm, producing a corpus of cultural artefacts that still resonate today. Further, Japanese horror is symptomatic of its social and cultural context, celebrating the fantastic through female ghosts, mutated lizards, posthuman bodies, and other figures. Encompassing a range of genres and media including cinema, manga, video games, and anime, this book investigates and analyzes Japanese horror in relation with trauma studies (including the figure of Godzilla), the non-human (via grotesque bodies), and hybridity with Western narratives (including the linkages with Hollywood), thus illuminating overlooked aspects of this cultural phenomenon.
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Copyright year
2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-4705-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-4706-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
236
Product type
Edited Book
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Introduction No access Pages 1 - 6
The Ghost of Imperialism No access
A Modern Monster No access
Cultural Trauma, Cross-Flow of Aesthetics, and the Child No access
Space, Smoke, and Mirrors No access
The Dead Speak No access
“Love in a Chair” No access
The Monstrous Feminine in Mari Asato J-Horror films No access
Composite Corpses and Viruses of Viewing No access
Spiral into Samsara in Junji Ito’s J-Horror Masterpiece Uzumaki No access
Controlling the Inner Demon No access
The Transpacific Complicity of J-Horror and Hollywood No access
Revisiting the Orphan Girl Narrative in Rule of Rose No access
Idol Culture and Gradations of Reality in Japanese Found Footage Horror Films No access
