| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 235 pages). |
| Series |
Lexington Books horror studies
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Lexington Books horror studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Subashish Bhattacharjee -- Part 1: National Traumas and Repressions. The Ghost of Imperialism: Japan's Forgotten Horrors in the Shadow of Sadako / Calum Waddell -- A Modern Monster: Shin-Godzilla and its Place in the Discourse Concerning 3.11 and National Resilience / Barbara Greene -- Cultural Trauma, Cross-Flow of Aesthetics, and the Child: A Comparison between Ringu and The Ring / Bipasha Mandal -- Space, Smoke, and Mirrors: The Frightening Ambiguity of Ju-On: Origins (2020) / Daniel Krátký -- The Dead Speak: Horror and the Modern Ghost in Eiji Ōtsuka's The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service / Megan Negrych -- Part 2: Posthuman Monsters and Grotesque Bodies. "Love in a Chair": Industrialization and Exploitation Edogawa Rampo's "The Human Chair" and Junji Ito's Manga Adaptation / Leonie Rowland -- The Monstrous Feminine in Mari Asato's J-Horror Films / Canela Rodríguez Fontao and Mariana Soledad Zárate -- Composite Corpses and Viruses of Viewing: J-Horror as Film and Media Theory / William Carroll -- Spiral into Samsara in Junji Ito's J-Horror Masterpiece Uzumaki / Wayne Stein -- Controlling the Inner Demon: Theological Approaches on Devilman / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns -- Part 3: Cultural Flows. The Transpacific Complicity of J-Horror and Hollywood / Seán Hudson -- Revisiting the Orphan Girl Narrative in Rule of Rose / Ingrid Butler -- Idol Culture and Gradations of Reality in Japanese Found Footage Horror Films / Dennin Ellis -- Obscure, Reveal, Repeat: Hidden Worlds and Uncertain Truths in Kōji Shiraishi's The Curse and Occult / Lindsay Nelson. |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Horror films -- Japan -- History and criticism.
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Horror comic books, strips, etc. -- Japan -- History and criticism.
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Horror tales, Japanese -- History and criticism.
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Horror in mass media.
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Horror comic books, strips, etc. |
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Horror films. |
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Horror in mass media. |
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Horror tales, Japanese. |
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Japan. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Pagnoni Berns, Fernando Gabriel, 1975- editor.
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Bhattacharjee, Subashish, editor.
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Saha, Ananya, editor.
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| Cover Title |
Japanese horror culture |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Japanese horror Lanham : Lexington Books, [2021] 9781793647054 (DLC) 2021033532 |
| ISBN |
9781793647061 electronic book |
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1793647062 electronic book |
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9781793647054 hardcover |
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