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Author McRoy, Jay.

Title Nightmare Japan : contemporary Japanese horror cinema / Jay McRoy.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2008.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 219 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Contemporary cinema, 1572-3070 ; 4
Contemporary cinema ; 4. 1572-3070
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-215) and index.
Contents Nightmare Japan; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: 'New Waves', Old Terrors and Emerging Fears; Chapter One: Guinea Pigs and Entrails: Cultural Transformations and Body Horror in Japanese Torture Film; Chapter Two: Cultural Transformation, Corporeal Prohibitions and Body Horror in Sato Hisayasu's Naked Blood and Muscle; Chapter Three: Ghosts of the Present, Spectres of the Past: the kaidan and the Haunted Family in the Cinema of Nakata Hideo and Shimizu Takashi.
Chapter Four: A Murder of Doves: Youth Violence and the Rites of Passing in Contemporaray Japanese Horror CinemaChapter Five: Spiraling into Apocalypse: Sono Shion's Suicide Circle, Higuchinsky's Uzumaki, and Kurosawa Kiyoshi's Pulse; Chapter Six: New Terrors, Emerging Trends and the Future of Japanese Horror; Works Cited and Consulted; Index.
Summary Over the last two decades, Japanese filmmakers have produced some of the most important and innovative works of cinematic horror. At once visually arresting, philosophically complex, and politically charged, films by directors like Tsukamoto Shinya (Tetsuo: The Iron Man [1988] and Tetsuo II: Body Hammer [1992]), Sato Hisayasu (Muscle [1988] and Naked Blood [1995]) Kurosawa Kiyoshi (Cure [1997], Séance [2000], and Ka©ro [2001]), Nakata Hideo (Ringu [1998], Ringu II [1999], and Dark Water [2002]), and Miike Takashi (Audition [1999] and Ichi the Killer [2001]) continually revisit and redefin.
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Subject Horror films -- Japan -- History and criticism.
Horror films.
Japan.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: McRoy, Jay. Nightmare Japan. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2008 9789042023314
ISBN 9781435613485 (electronic book)
1435613481 (electronic book)
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9042023317
9789042023314