Research Catalog

Title

Japanese horror culture : critical essays on film, literature, anime, video games / edited by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Subashish Bhattacharjee, and Ananya Saha.

Publication

• Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2021]
• ©2021

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Pagnoni Berns, Fernando Gabriel, 1975-
• Bhattacharjee, Subashish
• Saha, Ananya

Description

vi, 235 pages; 24 cm.

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"--

Series Statement

Lexington Books horror studies

Uniform Title

Lexington Books horror studies.

Subject

• Horror films > Japan > History and criticism
• Horror comic books, strips, etc. > Japan > History and criticism
• Horror tales, Japanese > History and criticism
• Horror in mass media
• Horror comic books, strips, etc
• Horror films
• Horror tales, Japanese
• Japan

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Subashish Bhattacharjee -- Part 1: National Traumas and Repressions. The Ghost of Imperialism: Japan's Forgotten Horrors in the Shadow of Sadako / Calum Waddell -- A Modern Monster: Shin-Godzilla and its Place in the Discourse Concerning 3.11 and National Resilience / Barbara Greene -- Cultural Trauma, Cross-Flow of Aesthetics, and the Child: A Comparison between Ringu and The Ring / Bipasha Mandal -- Space, Smoke and Mirrors: The Frightening Ambiguity of Ju-On: Origins (2020) / Daniel Krátký -- "The Dead Speak: Horror and the Modern Ghost in Eiji Ōtsuka's The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service / Megan Negrych -- Part 2: Posthuman Monsters and Grotesque Bodies. "Love in a Chair": Industrialization and Exploitation Edogawa Rampo's "The Human Chair" and Junji Ito's Manga Adaptation / Leonie Rowland -- The Monstrous Feminine in Mari Asato's J-Horror Films / Canela Ailén Rodriguez Fontao and Mariana Zárate -- Composite Corpses and Viruses of Viewing: J-Horror as Film and Media Theory / William Carroll -- Spiral into Samsara in Junji Ito's J-Horror Masterpiece Uzumaki / Wayne Stein -- Controlling the Inner Demon: Theological Approaches on Devilman / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns -- Part 3: Cultural Flows. The Transpacific Complicity of J-Horror and Hollywood / Seán Hudson -- Revisiting the Orphan Girl Narrative in Rule of Rose / Ingrid Butler -- Idol Culture and Gradations of Reality in Japanese Found Footage Horror Films / Dennin Ellis -- Obscure, Reveal, Repeat: Hidden Worlds and Uncertain Truths in Kōji Shiraishi's The Curse and Occult / Lindsay Nelson.

Call Number

MFL 22-254

ISBN

• 9781793647054
• 1793647054

LCCN

2021033532

OCLC

1260172478

Title

Japanese horror culture : critical essays on film, literature, anime, video games / edited by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Subashish Bhattacharjee, and Ananya Saha.

Publisher

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Lexington Books horror studies

Lexington Books horror studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Pagnoni Berns, Fernando Gabriel, 1975- editor.

Bhattacharjee, Subashish, editor.

Saha, Ananya, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Japanese horror Lanham : Lexington Books, [2021] 9781793647061 (DLC) 2021033533

Research Call Number

MFL 22-254