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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456537903321

Titolo

Horror to the extreme [[electronic resource] ] : changing boundaries in Asian cinema / / edited by Jinhee Choi and Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hong Kong, : Hong Kong University Press, c2009

ISBN

988-220-702-2

1-282-70899-6

9786612708992

988-8052-37-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (ix, 273 pages) : illustrations

Collana

TransAsia: screen cultures

Altri autori (Persone)

ChoiJinhee

Wada-MarcianoMitsuyo

Disciplina

791.436164095

Soggetti

Horror films - Asia - History and criticism

Horror films - Asia

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-259) and index.

Nota di contenuto

J-horror : New Media's Impact on Contemporary Japanese Horror Cinema / Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano -- A Cinema of Girlhood : Sonyeo Sensibility and the Decorative Impulse in the Korean Horror Cinema / Jinhee Choi -- Inner Senses and the Changing Face of Hong Kong Horror Cinema / Kevin Heffernan -- The Pan-Asian Outlook of The Eye / Adam Knee -- The Art of Branding : Tartan "Asia Extreme'" Films / Chi-Yun Shin -- The Mummy Complex : Kurosawa Kiyoshi's Loft and J-horror / Chika Kinoshita -- The Good, the Bad, and the South Korean : Violence, Morality, and the South Korean Extreme Film / Robert L. Cagle -- Magic, Medicine, Cannibalism : The China Demon in Hong Kong Horror / Emilie Yueh-Yu Yeh, Neda Hei-Tung Ng -- That Unobscure Object of Desire and Horror : On Some Uncanny Things in Recent Korean Horror Films / Hyun-Suk Seo -- "Tell the Kitchen That There's Too Much Buchu in the Dumpling" : Reading Park Chan-wook's "Unknowable" oldboy / Kyung Hyun Kim -- A Politics of Excess : Violence and Violation in Miike Takashi's Audition / Robert Hyland.

Sommario/riassunto

This book compares production and consumption of Asian horror



cinemas in different national contexts and their multidirectional dialogues with Hollywood and neighboring Asian cultures.