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.

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 cine...

Table of Contents:

• 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.