Horror to the extreme : changing boundaries in Asian cinema / edited by Jinhee Choi and Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Choi, Jinhee.

Wada-Marciano, Mitsuyo.

Series:

TransAsia: screen cultures.

TransAsia: screen cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror films--Asia--History and criticism.

Horror films.

Horror films--Asia--Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 273 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book compares production and consumption of Asian horror cinemas in different national contexts and their multidirectional dialogues with Hollywood and neighboring Asian cultures.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-259) and index.

ISBN:

988-220-702-2

1-282-70899-6

9786612708992

988-8052-37-3

OCLC:

650540521