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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300001503321

Autore

Brown Steven T

Titolo

Japanese Horror and the Transnational Cinema of Sensations / / by Steven T. Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-70629-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (330 pages) : illustrations (some color), photographs

Collana

East Asian Popular Culture, , 2634-5935

Disciplina

791.4361640952

Soggetti

Motion pictures—Asia

Ethnology—Asia

Motion pictures

Film genres

Asian Cinema and TV

Asian Culture

Audio-Visual Culture

Global Cinema and TV

Genre

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Ambient Horror: From Sonic Palimpsests to Haptic Sonority in the Cinema of Kurosawa Kiyoshi -- 3. Double Trouble: Doppelgängers in Japanese Horror -- 4. Cinema Fou: Surrealist Horror from Face of Another to Gozu -- 5. In the Wake of Artaud: Cinema of Cruelty in Audition and Oldboy -- 6. Conclusion: Envelopes of Fear: The Temporality of Japanese Horror.

Sommario/riassunto

Japanese Horror and the Transnational Cinema of Sensations undertakes a critical reassessment of Japanese horror cinema by attending to its intermediality and transnational hybridity in relation to world horror cinema. Neither a conventional film history nor a thematic survey of Japanese horror cinema, this study offers a transnational analysis of selected films from new angles that shed light on previously ignored aspects of the genre, including sound design, framing techniques, and lighting, as well as the slow attack and long release



times of J-horror’s slow-burn style, which have contributed significantly to the development of its dread-filled cinema of sensations.