The Monstrous-Feminine in Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Dumas, Raechel (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: East Asian Popular Culture
• Θέματα: Ethnology-Asia.; Culture.; Gender.; Popular Culture.; Motion pictures-Asia.; Asian Culture.; Culture and Gender.; Popular Culture .; Global/International Culture.; Asian Cinema and TV.

This book explores the monstrous-feminine in Japanese popular culture, produced from the late years of the 1980s through to the new millennium. Raechel Dumas examines the role of female monsters in selected works of fiction, manga, film, and video games, offering a trans-genre, trans-media analysis...

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• 1. Open Wounds: Situating the Monstrous-Feminine in Contemporary Japan
• 2. The Girls that Never End: The Infinite Seduction of Tomie and Ring
• 3. Xenogenesis: Monstrous Mothers and Evolutionary Horrors in Contemporary Japanese Science Fiction
• 4. Faces of Horror, Dances of Death: Female Revenants and Suburban Hauntings in New Millennial Japanese Horror Films
• 5. Corrupted Innocence, Sacred Violence, and Gynoid Becomings: The Monstrous-Feminine on the Gaming Scene
• 6. Disobedient Bodies, Monstrous Affinities: Reframing Female Defilement in Natsuo Kirino's The Goddess Chronicle
• 7. The End?.