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Title: Japanese Horror Culture
Condition: New
Subtitle: Critical Essays on Film, Literature, Anime, Video Games
Author: Subashish Bhattacharjee
Contributor: Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns (Edited by), Subashish Bhattacharjee (Edited by), Ananya Saha (Edited by), Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns (Contributions by), Subashish Bhattacharjee (Contributions by), Calum Waddell (Contributions by), Barbara Greene (Contributions by), Bipasha Mandal (Contributions by), Daniel Krátký (Contributions by), Megan Negrych (Contributions by), Leonie Rowland (Contributions by), Canela Ailén Rodriguez Fontao (Contributions by), Mariana Zárate (Contributions by), William Carroll (Contributions by), Wayne Stein (Contributions by), Seán Hudson (Contributions by), Ingrid Butler (Contributions by), Dennin Ellis (Contributions by), Lindsay Nelson (Contributions by)
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1793647070
EAN: 9781793647078
ISBN: 9781793647078
Publisher: Lexington Books
Genre: Films & TV
Topic: Horror, Fiction, Society & Culture, Literary Criticism
Release Date: 15/09/2023
Description:

Contemporary Japanese horror is deeply rooted in the folklore of its culture, with fairy tales-like ghost stories embedded deeply into the social, cultural, and religious fabric. Ever since the emergence of the J-horror phenomenon in the late 1990s with the opening and critical success of films such as Hideo Nakata’s The Ring (Ringu, 1998) or Takashi Miike’s Audition (Ôdishon, 1999), Japanese horror has been a staple of both film studies and Western culture. Scholars and fans alike throughout the world have been keen to observe and analyze the popularity and roots of the phenomenon that took the horror scene by storm, producing a corpus of cultural artefacts that still resonate today. Further, Japanese horror is symptomatic of its social and cultural context, celebrating the fantastic through female ghosts, mutated lizards, posthuman bodies, and other figures. Encompassing a range of genres and media including cinema, manga, video games, and anime, this book investigates and analyzes Japanese horror in relation with trauma studies (including the figure of Godzilla), the non-human (via grotesque bodies), and hybridity with Western narratives (including the linkages with Hollywood), thus illuminating overlooked aspects of this cultural phenomenon.

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