Japanese Horror and the Transnational Cinema of Sensations

• Main Author: Brown, Steven T. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: East Asian Popular Culture
• Subjects: Motion pictures-Asia.; Ethnology-Asia.; Motion pictures.; Film genres.; Asian Cinema and TV.; Asian Culture.; Audio-Visual Culture.; Global Cinema and TV.; Genre.
• Physical Description: XVI, 330 p. 62 illus., 49 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319706290
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-70629-0

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.