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Japanese horror : critical essays on film, literature, anime, video games / edited by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Subashish Bhattacharjee, and Ananya Saha.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bhattacharjee, Subashish, author.
- Greene, Barbara, author.
- Kratky, Daniel, author.
- Waddell, Calum, author.
- Series:
- Lexington Books Horror Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horror films--Japan--History and criticism.
- Horror films.
- Horror tales, Japanese.
- Horror in mass media.
- Horror comic books, strips, etc.
- Horror tales, Japanese--History and criticism.
- Horror comic books, strips, etc--Japan--History and criticism.
- Japan.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (243 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.
- Place of Publication:
- Maryland : Lexington Books, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file rdaft
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- National Traumas and Repressions
- The Ghost of Imperialism
- A Modern Monster
- Cultural Trauma, Cross-Flow of Aesthetics, and the Child
- Space, Smoke, and Mirrors
- The Dead Speak
- Posthuman Monsters and Grotesque Bodies
- "Love in a Chair"
- The Monstrous Feminine in Mari Asato J-Horror films
- Composite Corpses and Viruses of Viewing
- Spiral into Samsara in Junji Ito's J-Horror Masterpiece Uzumaki
- Controlling the Inner Demon
- Cultural Flows
- The Transpacific Complicity of J-Horror and Hollywood
- Revisiting the Orphan Girl Narrative in Rule of Rose
- Idol Culture and Gradations of Reality in Japanese Found Footage Horror Films
- Obscure, Reveal, Repeat
- Index
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-66699-460-X
- 1-7936-4706-2
- OCLC:
- 1281978615
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