Nightmare Japan : contemporary Japanese horror cinema

Nightmare Japan : contemporary Japanese horror cinema / Jay McRoy.

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 Ha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McRoy, Jay
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2008.
Series:Contemporary cinema ; 4.
Subjects:
Horror films > Japan > History and criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
Horror films
Japan
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of 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.

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