| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 273 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
TransAsia : screen cultures
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TransAsia--screen cultures.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-259) and index. |
| Contents |
J-horror : New Media's Impact on Contemporary Japanese Horror Cinema / Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano -- A Cinema of Girlhood : Sonyeo Sensibility and the Decorative Impulse in the Korean Horror Cinema / Jinhee Choi -- Inner Senses and the Changing Face of Hong Kong Horror Cinema / Kevin Heffernan -- The Pan-Asian Outlook of The Eye / Adam Knee -- The Art of Branding : Tartan "Asia Extreme'" Films / Chi-Yun Shin -- The Mummy Complex : Kurosawa Kiyoshi's Loft and J-horror / Chika Kinoshita -- The Good, the Bad, and the South Korean : Violence, Morality, and the South Korean Extreme Film / Robert L. Cagle -- Magic, Medicine, Cannibalism : The China Demon in Hong Kong Horror / Emilie Yueh-Yu Yeh, Neda Hei-Tung Ng -- That Unobscure Object of Desire and Horror : On Some Uncanny Things in Recent Korean Horror Films / Hyun-Suk Seo -- "Tell the Kitchen That There's Too Much Buchu in the Dumpling" : Reading Park Chan-wook's "Unknowable" oldboy / Kyung Hyun Kim -- A Politics of Excess : Violence and Violation in Miike Takashi's Audition / Robert Hyland. |
| Summary |
This title compares production and consumption of Asian horror cinemas in different national contexts and their multidirectional dialogues with Hollywood and neighbouring Asian cultures. The essays highlight common themes such as technology digital media, and transnational co-productions. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Horror films -- Asia -- History and criticism.
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Horror films. |
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Asia. |
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Horror films -- Asia -- Cross-cultural studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Choi, Jinhee.
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Wada-Marciano, Mitsuyo.
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| In: |
HKU Press digital editions. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Horror to the extreme. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press ; London : Eurospan [distributor], ©2009 9789622099722 (OCoLC)320588895 |
| ISBN |
9789888052370 (electronic book) |
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9888052373 (electronic book) |
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9789622099739 |
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9622099734 |
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9789622099722 |
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9622099726 |
| Standard No. |
9786612708992 |
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